DAILY READINGS: 1 Kings 4-5; Jeremiah 12; Ephesians 5:1-21
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Galatians 3:27
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. Romans 13:14
It is one thing to have Christ within but quite another to "put Him on." The one is internal and the other external. Our first verse says that we put Him on when we are baptized into Him, the other says we put Him on by "making no provision for the flesh." The first happens when we are saved. The other is ongoing throughout life. If He is the Resident within, He should also be the President. This can only be possible when we have crucified the flesh and the lusts thereof (Galatians 5:24). —Harold G. Smith
Once far from God and dead in sin, no light my heart could see;
But in God’s word the light I found, now Christ liveth in me.—James McGranahan