Christ in You

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” — Colossians 1:27 (KJV)

Meyer’s last chapters go to the heart of everything: Jesus doesn’t just guide us from the outside. He lives in us by his Spirit.

Paul called this a mystery: “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Meyer imagines asking Jesus, “Master, where dwellest thou?”, as the first disciples did. Today, he says, Jesus would not point to heaven or to a grand church building, “but to the happy spirit that loves, trusts, and obeys Him.”

Jesus said: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him.” Meyer says Jesus wants to live in each believer “as a tenant in a house; as sap in the branch”.

Meyer also writes about the presence of God. God is always near, he says, but we don’t always realise it. He mentions Brother Lawrence, the monastery cook, who for years lived with a constant sense of God’s presence while doing ordinary jobs.

And he writes about being filled with the Holy Spirit. He says many Christians have the Spirit only “as an attenuated thread, a silver streak, a shallow brook”, when God wants to fill them like a full river. Do you lack assurance? Victory over sin? Power to serve? Meyer says the answer is the Holy Spirit. Paul’s command is simple: “Be filled with the Spirit.”

This is the real secret of guidance. It isn’t a technique. It is a relationship. When Jesus lives in you, and you keep saying yes to him, he guides you from the inside.

Meyer lived to be eighty-one. A few days before he died in 1929, he wrote to a friend:

“It may be that before this reaches you, I shall have entered the palace. Don’t trouble to write. We shall meet in the morning.”

He had followed God’s guidance all his life, one step at a time, and he finished with complete confidence. The God who guided him promises to guide you too, not the whole way at once, but the next step, and the next, all the way home.

One thing to do this week: read Revelation 3:20 this week. Each morning, pray: “Lord Jesus, you live in me. Fill me with your Spirit today, and guide my next step.” Notice one moment each day when you sense him leading.