Communion with God

We ourselves do not know either the language of God nor the thoughts of his heart.  We cannot, on our own, communicate with Him nor He with us.  We paint Him in our own image and put into His mouth our own words and thoughts, which are corrupt from the beginning.  But He sends to us His own Son, His Word, His exact Image, to reveal to us His exact thoughts, which are higher than the heavens above and beyond the reach of our greatest imagination. 

Except for His enlightenment and grace, except for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in the flesh, we could not receive the words, the communication of God, even after He has spoken to us:  the natural man cannot receive the things of the spirit (I Cor. 2:14).  But Jesus, crucifying in His own flesh once and for all, the natural man whose understanding is darkened by sin, has made us creatures capable of receiving spiritual truth.  He has made us "like God" by the power of His resurrection from the earth and the gift of His very own Spirit.

Let us then enter into His death and resurrection, agreeing to the death of our natural man which resists the things of God, embracing instead the new life given us in the resurrection from the dead.  Death is painful, but it is only by laying down our natural lives and letting them go that we are finally able to take up the life of the Spirit of God in us.  Paul said, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me to the glory of the Father."