Union

1 Corinthians 6:17

There is more to Christianity than just doctrine, missions, and worship.  It is not just about doing good deeds and being a loving neighbor.  All these things are really by-products of the main thing.  Our text today teaches us the "main" thing; union.  We are not just people who have beliefs we are intimately and uniquely joined to God in Christ Jesus.  "The one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him." 
When we confess Christ as Lord and that He was raised from the dead we are not just saved judiciously we are born again and brought into a spiritual relationship with God.  Paul relates it to when a man and woman engage in sexual intercourse they become one.(1 Corinthians 6:16)  God and man are connected together in Jesus Christ. You are brought into Jesus and He is brought into you.  Paul understood this when He wrote Galatians 2:20 and Colossians 1:27.  He lives through me and I live through Him.  As a branch and a vine are connected and produce fruit so the Christian is fused into Christ and He flows through the believer to produce the life. 
The Secret? Paul said it in Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.  All things are possible to Jesus.  And because you and I are fused together with Him all things are possible.  I can do nothing apart from Him.  So the secret is living with confidence and adherence to the fusion of the lives of you and Christ.  We must not allow anything to come between that reality and our lives.  Today, live with the confidence of union and expect all things to flow from it.  The hard part is waiting for fruit.