Christians At Uni

Every day we depend upon electricity. We turn on lights, charge our iPods, boot up computers, and watch TV. All this is simply done at the flick of a switch. But have you ever considered what it takes for the electricity to get from the power station to your home? It has gone through a process – flowing from the power station through substations, pylons and transmission lines, until finally it is available at the flick of a switch.

God too went through a process to become available to man. God the Father, as the source of the divine electricity, is like a power station (Eph 1:19). He flowed Himself into humanity, becoming a God-man called Jesus (John 1:14). Jesus, with both the divine and human nature, lived a genuine human life with many earthly sufferings, died, and was buried. But the process did not stop there! Jesus resurrected from the dead and became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor 15:45). As the Spirit, God is in a form available to man (John 20:22). The Spirit can be installed into your spirit (John 3:6) today as the heavenly electricity, just by saying, “O Lord Jesus, come into me!”

Once electricity has been installed into a building, everything is so simple. To receive the electricity from the power station all you need to do is flick the switch. When God enters our human spirit, a heavenly switch is installed to connect us to the heavenly supply (Phil 1:19). Every day we can flick the switch in our spirit to experience and enjoy God flowing into our being.