A New Spirit, and God\’s Spirit (v)
SCRIPTURE: I will put a new spirit within you. Ezekiel 36: 26, 27
\’WITHIN YOU!\’ WITHIN YOU!
\’Within you ! \’ Within you ! This twice-repeated word of our text is one of the keywords of
the \’New Covenant. \’ I will put my law in their inward parts, \’and in their heart will I write it.\’
I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.\’ God created man\’s heart
for His dwelling. Sin entered, and defiled it. For Four thousand years God\’s Spirit strove and
wrought to regain possession. In the Incarnation and Atonement of Christ the Redemption
was accomplished, and the kingdom of God established. Jesus could say, \’The kingdom of
God is come unto you;\’ \’the kingdom of God is within you.\’ It is within we must look for the
fulfilment of the New Covenant, the Covenant not of ordinances but of life: in the power of
an endless life the law and the fear of God are to be given in our heart: the Spirit of Christ
Himself is to be within us as the power of our life. Not only on Calvary, or in the resurrection,
or on the throne, is the glory of Christ the Conqueror to be seen, -but in our heart: within
us, within us is to be the true display of the reality and the glory of His Redemption.
Within us, in our inmost parts, is the hidden sanctuary where is the ark of the Covenant,
sprinkled with the Blood, and containing the Law written in an ever-living writing by the
Indwelling Spirit, and where, through the Spirit, the Father and the Son now come to dwell.
Then we can display Him openly.
PRAYER:_ O my God! I do thank you for this double blessing. I thank You for that
wonderful holy temple you have built up in me for yourself – a new spirit given within me.
And I thank you for that still more wonderful Holy Presence, Your Own Spirit, to dwell
within me, and there reveal the Father and the Son.
O my God! I do pray, open mine eyes for this the mystery of your love. Let your words,
“within you,\’ bow me low in trembling fear and may my one desire be to have my spirit
indeed the worthy dwelling of the Holy Spirit.
O my Father! I thank you that your Spirit really dwells in me. I pray let His indwelling: be
in power, in the living fellowship with You, in the growing experience of His renewing
power, in the ever-fresh anointing that witnesses to His Presence, and the indwelling of my
Glorified Lord Jesus. May my daily walk be in the deep reverence of His Holy Presence
within me, and the glad experience of all He works. Amen.