In Christ

“Therefore If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”. (II Cor. 5:17) If this is true, and I believe with all my heart that it is, then why do we see Christians still doing the “old things”? The Apostle Paul said, “for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that I do” (Romans 7:15)

It’s because a man can have Christ “in him” and not be “in Christ”. We can have Christ in our hearts and not have Him in our heads. We pray and draw closer to God emotionally, in our hearts, but we need to be asking Him to get in our head; to give us the “Mind of Christ”. Then we will be “in Christ” and those old things will truly pass away.

It was the “facts” about Christ that first drew us into an intimate relationship with Him. The “feelings” came later. He started off in our heads and we had to make a conscious decision before He moved into our hearts. Afterwards we begin to direct our attention to the feelings more and less toward the facts. We need to get back to asking Christ into our heads.