Acts 1: 3 To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering,…
Gal. 1: 15 But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased 16 to reveal His Son in me…
In these verses are recorded two of the most important statements concerning our relationship to Christ.
First, every relationship with Jesus begins with the Holy Spirit in His own unique way presenting Christ alive to us in light of His going to the cross for us, and His rising from the dead. No person gives their life to Jesus without believing that Jesus died for their sins, and is now alive, wanting to save them. I remember when I surrendered my life to Christ, and fully embraced Him as my Lord and Savior. I can’t tell you of all the things I was thinking but I was obviously convinced that He was real, and he had died for me, and was wanting me to give my life to Him, so that He could change my story eternally. This is the place where every Christian’s story begins, but sadly for many, their stories get stuck there. They know their sins are forgiven, and they know they are going to Heaven one day, but the journey on the way to Heaven is full of ups and downs, with victories occasionally, but mostly defeats, kept hidden behind the veil of spiritual embarrassment. That is why that second statement from Galatians 1 is so significant in the life of one who has become a Christian.
Obviously, on the Damascus Road Jesus revealed himself TO Paul, who was still known as Saul, but sometime after that Paul said that God was pleased to reveal His son in him. Christ had already been revealed to him, which changed Heavenward destination; but Christ was also revealed IN him, which changed his daily destiny on the way to Heaven. Having had Christ revealed in him, Paul’s story was not changed just as a promise to be realized one day in heaven; instead, Paul’s story was now changed into Jesus’s story, lived out in and through him, realized everyday.
If you are a believer, then Christ has been revealed to you as alive, having suffered for your sins; but has he been revealed in you as your very life, and supernatural source for daily living. Paul said that God was pleased to reveal Christ in him, and we know that God is no respecter of persons. Therefore, simply ask God to reveal in you His Son, just as He did for Paul. I believe He will be pleased to do that.