Are You Deficient?

God is transcendent. He is everything from top to bottom. He can exercise creative power at any point. This whole thing is His bailiwick, a living organism. We boast that He has touched, even inhabited us. How much and how early can He touch, inhabit, exercise life-giving power upon a person? To what extent can He transcend? As symbolic as Jesus Christ may have been in the pens of the Bible's authors, I have every reason to believe that there was and is a definite, physical human being Jesus Christ...just like me. He, and I do mean He, appeared in my physical hearing, as He has in many millions of other people's hearing. He has appeared physically visually to many. That He exists, has transcendent power (Elohim), becomes (YHWH), and acts is assumed in the Bible. The 1st John 4 test is not for me; it is for others' bills of goods, their "spirit":

"Every spirit that professes that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is from God. And every spirit that does not profess that Jesus came in the flesh is not from God" (1 John 4:2, 3 Alexander).

What I am tested on--what EVERY CHRISTIAN IS TESTED ON--is whether or not I understand that Jesus Christ is in ME, that there is no separation. The person who does not fully recognize this for his or her self is "deficient": "For even though he was crucified forcibly, except he was resurrected by his Godly power. We are also forced alongside of him, except we live with him by the power of God that is in you. Your soul will be fortified, if you hold fast in Him through faith. Your soul will be healed, or did you not realize that He, Jesus Christ, is in you? And if not, you are deficient." (2 Corinthians 13:4, 5 Alexander, emphases mine). You are deficient if you believe that Christ is separate, divided from, other than you. That is the weird thing: it keeps cycling around back to you. Christ is in me; Christ is what the Father does; I do His Christ actions; therefore I am the Father, and Christ is in Me.

What is Christ doing in you? Or better yet, what are you doing with Christ in you?