A short reflection by Brent Snyder on Christ as our life.
Transcript
The invitation is not, “Try harder to stay close.” It is, “Come and share the life I have always shared with My Father.” That changes everything. A servant hears another command. A son hears an invitation home. Perhaps that is why Paul spends so much time saying that we are “in Christ” and that Christ is “in us.” The center of gravity is no longer our ability to maintain the relationship, but Christ Himself, who has included us in His own communion with the Father. The branch does not spend its day worrying about whether it is abiding in the vine. It simply lives because the life of the vine is already flowing through it.
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