God created you in His image—a likeness representing forms of His identity and capacity. You have been created with certain God-given endowments and have the capacity to engage in real relationship with your Creator. Within that relationship, you have the capacity to bear fruits according to His likeness and righteousness.
RELEVANCE
God truly wants to reveal His purposes and plans for you. He desires that you grow into the fullness of the measure of your capacity in Him. This was the thrust of Paul’s message regarding coming “to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13).
As a Jew the apostle, Paul, lived in a culture awaiting the Messiah—the promised deliverer and savior, hope of mankind. He recognized Jesus as that One. He further recognized that Christ in us through the Holy Spirit—is the true standard of measure of our utmost capacity.
We fall short of receiving the fullness of God’s grace and developing the fullness of the measure of our capacity in God because we fall short of yielding to the Holy Spirit and allowing God’s capacity to grow within us. Truly, God sees a greater capacity in you than you think. He has predestined you “to be conformed to the image of His Son” (Romans 8:29).
REFLECT AND RELATE
How are you being conformed to His image?
What can God strengthen in your life?
What do you think needs to be removed from your life?
REFERENCES
John 8:31-35; 14:16; 15:4-10