It’s Transcedental! – Rhapsody Of Realities TeeVo Devotional June 10th

(Christianity: A Call To The Transcendent Life)

TO THE BIBLE: Colossians 1:27 CEV
“God did this because he wanted you Gentiles to understand his wonderful and glorious mystery. And the mystery is that Christ lives in you….”

LET’S TALK
In Christianity, we haven’t embraced a religion; what we’ve actually received is God’s nature—His life.

Don’t let anyone deceive you into thinking that Christianity is just one of the religions in the world; it’s not. It’s a relationship—a call to the transcendent life of glory and love.

When you have a relationship with someone, that isn’t religion. Those who describe Christianity as a religion do so because all the outward things that religious people do seem to be consistent with some of the outward things Christians do.

For example, in religion, they pray or probably have a book that they read; they also have religious rites and rituals that they follow.

In Christianity, we have sacraments like the Holy Communion, Water Baptism, etc., but that doesn’t make it a religion.

You can’t look at an animal and say, “If it has two hands and two legs and can walk, then it is a human being”; that isn’t enough. Otherwise, gorillas and other apes will be categorised as humans.

Christianity is a real experience; it’s the active life of God in a human being; it’s Christ alive in you; it’s a real comradeship with the real and living Christ—a call to oneness with divinity: “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:17). Hallelujah!

In Christianity, we live and move in Christ (Acts 17:28); we’re members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones (Ephesians 5:30).

Colossians 1:26-27 sums it all! It says, “The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints…which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

Christianity is Christ alive in the quarters of your heart—a real relationship with a real God. Christianity is a walk with God in righteousness. Hallelujah!

Go Deeper
2 Peter 1:4; 1 John 5:11-12 NIV; 1 Corinthians 1:9

Speak:
Christ in me has made me an associate of the Godkind, the effulgence of God’s glory, and a dispenser of His goodness to my world. Christ is my life; in Him, I live, move, and have my being! I’m fruitful, productive, and excellent because I’m one with the Lord in a real relationship, being a member of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. Glory to God!

Daily Bible Reading
ONE YEAR
Acts 2:1-21, 2 Chronicles 5-7
TWO YEAR
Mark 16:12-20, Deuteronomy 8

Act:
Speak in other tongues and thank the Lord for His transcendental life in you.