It's a very interesting experience-making podcasts, sitting with Ligonier sound engineers and my producer,

and helpful people making all the technical things work, and the production quality meeting the appropriate standards.

And then wondering if anyone is actually going to be listening when the podcast is here.

But if we are listening as Christians, it's really a heartwarming thing to remember, as we sometimes think,

that the same spirit of the Lord Jesus

endwells every single one of us. We were thinking about that last week, and it reminds us that

we're bound together with every other Christian, even if we never meet each other. And so we are indeed,

as Paul says, one in the spirit.

And we experience that in remarkable ways.

Remember how Paul writes to the Corinthians that they are to do something when his spirit

is with them?

And he doesn't mean anything spooky, but he means that they're so bound together

in the one body by the Holy Spirit that he wants to share in what they're going to do.

And later on you remember in First Corinthians, he says that when one member suffers,

the whole body suffers, because we're all indwelt in the same way, by the same spirit.

Now what's the point here? It's this. We share in each other's lives in the fellowship of Jesus Christ.

And the Lord is working in our lives to make us more like Christ. But we need to remember for all that unity that

we share, the Lord doesn't work in the same way at the same time in every single one of us. He paints

on the canvas of our lives with many different colors and shades. And the colors he's painting into your

life just now, well, they may be very bright. But the shade he's using in someone else's life may

be very dark, even black. Yes, he's bringing all of us to glory, and he will do that, but he polishes our graces

in very different ways.

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