The Spirit To Glorify Christ In Me

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for February 4
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The Spirit To Glorify Christ In Me

He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it
unto you. John 16:14

In these words Christ declares the crowning work of the Holy Spirit. The
Spirit glorifies Christ by making Him the object of supreme regard, and
the Saviour becomes the delight, the rejoicing, of the human agent in
whose heart is wrought this transformation. . . . 

Repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ are the fruits of the
renewing power of the grace of the Spirit. Repentance represents the
process by which the soul seeks to reflect the image of Christ to the
world.

Christ gives them the breath of His own Spirit, the life of His own
life. The Holy Spirit puts forth its highest energies to work in heart
and mind. The grace of God enlarges and multiplies their faculties, and
every perfection of the divine nature comes to their assistance in the
work of saving souls. Through cooperation with Christ they are complete
in Him, and in their human weakness they are enabled to do the deeds of
Omnipotence.

It should be the work of the Christian's life to put on Christ and to
bring himself to a more perfect likeness of Christ. The sons and
daughters of God are to advance in their resemblance to Christ, our
pattern. Daily they are to behold His glory and contemplate His
incomparable excellence.

O that the baptism of the Holy Spirit might come upon you, that you
might be imbued with the Spirit of God! Then day by day you will become
more and more conformed to the image of Christ, and in every action of
your life the question would be, "Will it glorify my Master?" By patient
continuance in well-doing you would seek for glory and honor, and would
receive the gift of immortality.

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, p. 42, 43.