“Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:” Colossians 1:27
That’s the way God does His Church. He gives you trial after trial, test after test, trial after trial, test after test, until the Life of Christ is reflected in your life; until you become peaceful, sober, meek, gentle, humble, ready, submissive, willing, turn your head on the things of the world, and looking straight to Calvary, to the One Who is doing the beating. Many times you think it’s strange because fiery trials, sickness, and persecutions. It’s only done to test you, to get the dirt out of you, to get the sludge out of you, to get the slowness out of you, to wake you up to the place where you can look and see the reflection, or a man can see the reflection of Christ in you, “Christ in you, the hope of Glory.” 57-0818 ~WMB
“My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.” Galatians 4:19
Rev. William Branham
December 19, 1954
The new Birth! If a birth is born from the outside, from the inside out, the child, it grows if it lives. If it doesn’t, it remains. Is that right? Well, when a Birth is on the inside, shouldn’t it grow? The Christ in your heart ought to be growing daily, getting bigger, more powerful, understanding things better, forgiving, walking on as God would, “till Christ be formed in you, the hope of Glory.”
We must force everything other than Christ to diminish, allowing HIM to permeate our whole being and saturate all our inward parts. Christ must become everything to us in our experience.