For in Christ all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete. Colossians 2:9-10.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
When I tell you that your sins and offenses I remember no more and that you are holy and blameless and without reproach in My sight, how am I seeing you? I am seeing you in Christ. In the finished work of Christ. I am seeing you cleansed by the blood. I am seeing all your sins accounted to Him. I am seeing you in Christ. So that is the way of love, you are in My love, abiding in Him and thus abiding in Me, in love. That I love you as I love Him because I am seeing you in Him as one that always does what is pleasing to Me.
And that is the way you must see yourself as well. No longer see the sinner. No longer see the blasphemer. No longer see yourself as just yourself with all the times you missed it, see yourself in Christ. And then you can walk in love with yourself and others. For you will see everyone in Christ. Then you be able to forgive others the way I have forgiven you—in Christ.
Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32.
Paul described himself as “a man in Christ,” and that man had a clear conscience and forgot what lay behind, only pressing forward to the goal of his high calling in Christ.
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven. And I know how such a man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows—was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak. On behalf of such a man I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in regard to my weaknesses. 2 Corinthians 12:2-5.
He acknowledged of himself he was the worst of sinners and in himself could not boast, but in Christ he could boast for I had made Christ wisdom to him, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:30-31.
And that is how you should know yourself now too, as a man or woman in Christ so that your conscience can be clear.
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Hebrews 9:13-14.
There is no condemnation now for those who are IN CHRIST. See yourself in Christ and you can walk with Me in love with no barrier of sin in the way. You can come to My throne of grace with confidence in My love for you and of receiving everything you need and desire.
When you just look at yourself, you are all fenced in by sin and you cannot get out. But when you see yourself in Christ you are free. Free of sin, free of fear, free of condemnation, because as He is so are you in this world.
By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10.
I have rescued you from the power of darkness and translated you to the Kingdom of My Beloved Son in whom you have redemption by His blood, the forgiveness of your sins.
I so loved the world that I gave you Jesus so you could live your life through with Him with all He had as yours, joint heirs. And everything He did was perfect. You are now made perfect in Him.
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. Hebrews 10:14.
You are complete in Him, you see yourself in Him and walking in love as He is in the light of My love, in fact, He is the light of My love shining not only on you but in you.
If you turn your gaze back on yourself all the time before Me, you will not be able to go forward and will defeat yourself. All you will see is your shortcomings, failures, and sins and of yourself you cannot free yourself from these things.
For evils beyond number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see; they are more numerous than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me. Psalm 40:12.
If you just concentrate on your iniquities you will not be able to see beyond yourself to the high calling I have for you in Christ. I have called you to My own Kingdom and glory. And this is why I tell you to keep your eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. Faith in My love for you, faith that in Christ Jesus all your sins are not just forgiven but gone and that I remember them no more. See yourself as I do, in Christ, and you will share My joy.
My Will for you IN CHRIST JESUS is that you rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and give constant thanks. This is impossible for the worldly that have rejected Jesus for they can only look at themselves, and there they see failures, strife, jealousy, iniquities and weakness and they cannot see beyond the grave. But it is very different for you who are in Christ, for in Him you see beyond the grave to your resurrection and eternal life. And above all else, you know you are loved, forgiven, blessed and favored and that has become the story of your life when you became a new creation IN Christ Jesus, your hope.
After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. John 14:19-20.
Because He lives, you will live also. In Christ you died to sin with Him. In Christ I raised you from the dead with Him, and seated you with Him and in Him in Heaven at My right hand.
When you believed in the gospel of your salvation, I sealed you in Christ by the Holy Spirit and gave you to My Son, just as I gave Him to you, and commanded Him to raise you up on the last day. Rejoice. In Him, your salvation is sealed and assured.
I love you. And that is why I have sealed you in Christ. Only see yourself in Christ and there will be a cause of rejoicing here.