Life's Purpose

By Miles J. Stanford

For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. (Colossians 2:9).

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19).

Christian growth is the becoming real in ourselves, of what is already true of us in the Lord Jesus.

'I am the vine, ye are the branches, He says. But the vine furnishes the branches, not only with the principle of life, but with the type of life. No pressure or molding from without is needed to shape them to the pattern of the parent stock. Every minutest peculiarity of form, and color, and taste, and fragrance is determined by the root, and developed from it. A true believer, therefore, will ask no better thing of the Lord than that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in his body (2 Corinthians 4:11).

"For such a manifestation will, by a necessary principle, be the unfolding within him of every needed element of joy and sorrow, of suffering and triumph." A.J. Gordon

"Straining, driving effort does not accomplish the work God gives a man to do; we must partake of Christ so fully that He more than fills the life. It will then be not overwork but overflow.

So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. (Colossians 2:10).