Jesus, the place I desire to be more than any other in time or space is IN YOU. There are some luxurious, beautiful, adventurous mountains, islands, and vacation spots around Your globe; however, I crave above everything to be IN YOU.
IN YOU is where everything I’ll ever need or want is located.
IN YOU it does not matter what happens in this life – I will still have beautiful fellowship, safety, peace and joy IN YOU.
IN YOU I have forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
What a blessing – You are the God of the universe yet You allow me to be miraculously and magnificently IN YOU. I do not deserve it – it is based 100% on Your love for me. It is not because I am that lovable; rather, it is because You are a God of the greatest love imaginable.
I never want to let Satan con me with his cheap tricks to trip my fleshly trigger with drugs, alcohol, possessions, money, sex, power, control, education, ego, people, career, etc. and pull me away from being IN YOU. I always want to be IN YOU because that is THE purpose and meaning of my entire life. If I am IN YOU I am exactly where I want to be from here to eternity.
Read Romans 6:1-4 and Ephesians 1:3-14. Then listen to an awesome song by MercyMe entitled: IN YOU.
Romans 6:1-4
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Far from it! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.
Ephesians 1:3-14
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He set forth in Him, regarding His plan of the fullness of the times, to bring all things together in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him we also have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things in accordance with the plan of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in the Christ would be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise, who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.