You have to step into your history if you are going to move forward into your future spiritually.
“There was the true light which, coming into the world, enlightens every person.” John 1:9
In the incarnation, Jesus vicariously clothed Himself with fallen humanity. He did not just clothe himself with humanity in a general sense but specifically with your humanity and mine. For thirty-three years, He lived in your place and on your behalf victoriously without sinning. In so doing, the Son of Man did not just enlighten everyone as to what gloriously free and whole human beings look like (giving us all hope), but He revealed what each of us individually looked like in union with Him. You have a record of overcoming the reign of sin in the incarnate Christ. Every victory over sin that you have longed for was revealed in the vicarious life of Christ. There is proof in the life Jesus lived that you have and, therefore, can live a life of breakthrough. He did not just live as an example for you. He lived as an example of you. Christians jump through so many hoops trying to earn a breakthrough when, in reality, Christ already accomplished that for us. In the resurrection Jesus eternally joined us to Himself so that the life He lived then, and our place and on our behalf revealed in the pages of Scripture, can be lived now by Him through us. His incarnational life is proof that you can experience everything you long for in Christ because you have before and, therefore can continue now to manifest the life of breakthrough and victory Jesus modeled clothed with you 2000 years ago on earth. You were there when Jesus healed the sick, when He didn’t lose this patience, or give into resentment, or selfishness, or live offended, or complain, or gossip, etc. The incarnation is a great mystery, and there are so many stunning aspects about it, but I love this one because it makes it easier for me in childlike faith to believe that what is historically true about me in Christ revealed in His incarnational life will still be true about me in the now and in the days to come. When Jesus said from the cross, “It is finished, completed, accomplished, perfect,” it means much more than most of us have ever imagined. We have a history in Christ and His vicarious life, death, resurrection, and ascension, and for us to move into our in Christ future as joyful and gloriously free overcomer’s, we must, in childlike faith, first step into our in Christ history.