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The ruin of sin Christ comes to restore. Creation foretells us what redemption is to effect. Christ came to bring us to God, that God might dwell in us as he meant to dwell in Adam. The Spirit came to bring God to us, that in our very heart and life, here on this earth, God might be all in us. When Christ said of the Father himself: We will come and make our abode with you; when Paul wrote of being filled with all the fullness of God; when John said, He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him; they all referred to a possible, to a prepared, to a promised life here on earth in which the great, holy, abiding presence of God is known in the heart. We ordinarily count it an unnatural strain, an impossible struggle, ever to maintain the sense of Gods nearness. This is only because we have not yet learnt that God is all that he created us for this very thing, that he himself might be our joy, our life, our portion. Because all things are of him, because we are of him, it can be, it should be true of us and in us God is all.
(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 67)
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