Jn.14:20 – On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you.
It’s funny how certain scriptures really stick with us. I was in a Bible School class over fifty years ago when the teacher pointed out today’s verse. I was newly saved and remember scratching my head over this verse; how could Christ be in the Father and me be in Him and then He would be in me. I was still trying to sort out what had happened since I had asked Jesus into my heart, that was still just too good to be true and impossible to digest. But then our teacher points this passage out to me and there was no way it made sense at all. Fifty years later I guess I am still scratching my head. The only conclusion I can come to is that this has something to do with the prayer Jesus prayed that same night, that we would all be one with Him and with the Father. This is how Matthew Henry describes this.
“That Christ is in the Father, is one with the Father, by their experience of what he has wrought for them and in them; they find what an admirable consent and harmony there is between Christianity and natural religion, that that is grafted into this, and so they know that Christ is in the Father. That Christ is in them; experienced Christians know by the Spirit that Christ abides in them. That they are in Christ, for the relation is mutual, and equally near on both sides, Christ in them and they in Christ, which speaks an intimate and inseparable union; in the virtue of which it is that because he lives they shall live also. Note, First, Union with Christ is the life of believers; and their relation to him, and to God through him, is their felicity. Secondly, The knowledge of this union is their unspeakable joy and satisfaction; they were now in Christ, and he in them, but he speaks of it as a further act of grace that they should know it, and have the comfort of it. An interest in Christ and the knowledge of it are sometimes separated.”
This truth apparently has everything to do with peace, safety, health, joy, provision; really everything all of us spend our life pursuing. At the end of the day all we are looking for is in Christ. Apparently this verse has proven true in my life because fifty years later Christ is in my heart and I am safe and secure in Him.