Bible Verse
“Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”
The Cross was not the end of Jesus’ story — it was the doorway into His glory. When He rose from the dead, He did not return to His former earthly life. He rose into a life that had never existed before — a resurrected, glorified life beyond death. Scripture tells us that even during His time on earth as God Incarnate, He had never lived this kind of life. His resurrection was the beginning of something entirely new.
And this is the life He now shares with us.
When a person truly comes to Christ — when they trust Him, surrender to Him, and receive Him — something real happens within. God places His own life inside us. Scripture calls this being “born of the Spirit,” or “born again,” or experiencing a “second birth.” All of these phrases point to the same truth:
God gives us a new inner life that comes from Him, not from us.
This new life begins quietly. When someone receives Christ, the Holy Spirit truly comes to live within them — fully, gently, and without force. Most people feel nothing dramatic, but the miracle is real: the Spirit of God has taken up residence in the human heart. After that moment, He does not override our will or push Himself forward. Instead, He invites us into relationship. As we begin to acknowledge Him, speak to Him, and open our hearts to His leading, the inner life He planted begins to awaken. He guides, softens, corrects, strengthens, and reshapes us from within.
Over time, our desires, attitudes, and ways of thinking begin to change. We learn to yield instead of push our own way, to rest in His strength instead of striving in our own, and to trust His guidance instead of resisting His leading. This is how the new life within us begins to grow.
Christ’s resurrection destiny — His foreordained purpose — was to bring “many sons to glory” (Hebrews 2:10). By fulfilling His destiny, He brings us into a relationship with the Father that we could never enter on our own. We do not share His divine Sonship, but He brings us into sonship through Him, in Him, by Him.
And just as He rose into a new life, we begin to walk in a newness of life as His Spirit works within us. One day we will have a new body like His glorious new body, but even now we can experience the power and effectiveness of His resurrection. This is what Paul longed for when he said his determined purpose was to “know Him and the power of His resurrection” (Philippians 3:10).
Jesus prayed, “as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him” (John 17:2). The Holy Spirit is the presence of that eternal life working in us here and now. He applies the power of Christ’s Cross to our daily living, shaping us into the likeness of Jesus as we respond to Him, as we yield to Him, as we obey His gentle prompting within. And as Oswald Chambers so beautifully said, "Thank God for the glorious and majestic truth that His Spirit can work the very nature of Jesus into us, if we will only obey Him."
This is the quiet miracle of resurrection life:
Christ rises within us, and we begin to live from a life that is not our own.
Risen Lord,
Inhale: Risen Christ,
Exhale: live in me.
~ Quil
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