Did you ever hear the legend of the man whose garden produced nothing but weeds?
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Colossians 1:27, "Christ in you, the hope of glory."
It may sound strange to say that "Christ in you" transfigures the man, until he becomes like Christ Himself.
The more we are filled with Christ, the more we feel our own natural emptiness.
The more we know of Him, the more we long to know Him."All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full." In the same way, all the streams of His grace and love and blessedness flow into our souls, and we are full. Yet, being full, we are longing for more. Not your gifts, O Lord; but You Yourself are the desire of our hearts.
Did you ever hear the legend of the man whose garden produced nothing but weeds, until at last he came across a strange foreign flower of singular beauty and vitality. The story is, that he sowed a handful of this seed in his overgrown weed garden, and left it to work its own sweet way.
He did not know how the seed was growing, until one day he opened the gate and saw a sight which much astounded him. He knew that the seed would produce a beautiful flower; but he had little dreamed that the plant would cover the whole garden! So it was: the flower had exterminated every weed, until as he looked from one end of his garden to the other, he could see nothing but the fair colors of that rare plant, and smell nothing but its delightful fragrance.
In the same way, Jesus is that plant of renown! If He is sown in the soil of your soul, then He will gradually eat out the roots of all weeds and poisonous plants, until "Christ in you" shall spread over your whole nature. May God grant that we realize this picture in our own hearts.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17
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