If it’s true that I am in union with the life that Jesus lives and the favor that he lives under, then Ephesians 1:3 makes a lot more sense. It says, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly’s in Christ.” Every spiritual blessing that Jesus carries, I am in union with because I am in Christ, and therefore we should never settle for a life less lofty than the life that is seated in Christ in Heaven walked out on earth. Unfortunately, many of us have settled for possessing everything yet not participating in everything that we possess. 1 Peter 1:3, 4 says that we HAVE BEEN GRANTED everything pertaining to life and godliness and that we have been granted precious and magnificent promises that through them, we might become PARTAKERS of the divine nature.
Every Christian is a possessor of the divine nature, but every Christian doesn’t consistently participate in the divine nature on a consistent basis, or at a high level. If I am a possessor of the divine nature of Jesus, then I should be able to experience in me and through me everything that is natural for Jesus to be and do. The whole Christian life on the inside and out is supposed to be a supernatural one because I’ve been placed in the union with the One who is supernatural. The obvious question then is HOW? I don’t like to talk about how to’s because the Christian life is actually a who to, but there are What’s that plunge us into experiencing more of the WHO. Everything in the Christian life works by faith, and faith is just confidently laying hold of all that the divine nature of Christ contains and is capable of. Having said that, there is something that undergirds and nurtures the life of faith and therefore nurtures my experience of my union with Christ and that something is “ familiarity.” I’ve heard people say that familiarity breeds contempt, but the truth is intimacy and familiarity breeds faith and nurtures experiential union. Galatians 5:6 says faith works through love, and that at least means that the more I pursue my love relationship with Jesus, in the place of intimacy, the more I will partake of and therefore participate in His adequacy. The Christian life is not a formula or a stagnant set of principles. It is a relationship with a person that I am in union with. All love relationships are cultivated in the place of fellowship and intimacy. Union is always nurtured by communion, and the more I know him and all that He is in me, the more I will lay hold of all that he has for me, and all that he can do through me.