Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

I'm Amy Boucher Pie and I called our reading The Indwelling Christ.

English preacher F. B. Meyer used the example of an egg to illustrate what he called,

the deep philosophy of the

indwelling Christ. He noted how the fertilized yolk is a little life germ that grows more and

more each day until the chick is formed in the shell. So too will Jesus come to live with us

through his Holy Spirit, changing us.

Meyer said, from now on, Christ is going to grow and increase and absorb into himself everything

else and be formed in you.

He apologized for stating the truths of Jesus imperfectly, knowing that his words couldn't

fully convey the wonderful

reality of Christ dwelling in believers through the Holy Spirit.

But he urged his listeners to share with others, however imperfectly, what Jesus meant when

he said in John chapter 14, on that day you will realize that I am in my father and you are in me and I am in you

Jesus said these words on the night of his last supper with his friends he wanted them to know that he and his father would come and make their home with those who obey him.

This is possible because through the Spirit, Jesus dwells in those who believe in him,

changing them from the inside out.

No matter how you picture it, we have Christ living inside us, guiding us and helping us to grow to be more like him.

The passage of Scripture today is from the Gospel of John, chapter 14, verses 15 through 24.

If you love me, keep my commands, and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate

to help you and be with you forever, the spirit of truth.

The world cannot accept him because it neither sees him nor knows him.

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