Day 3- Indwelt

Well Day 3 is here and I'm hungry, there is no getting around that. However I find in my hunger that it is a reminder (and a very strong one) that I need to have the presence of Jesus every second of every day. If I go a moment without Him then I don't want to live. People often ask the purpose of life, well I have an answer...Jesus!! Duh, the entire reason I get up in the morning is Jesus, the reason I hold a job, or the reason I do anything is because of Jesus. The moment I start living for myself is the moment that I become self centered and carnal. When that happens I no longer have the person of Jesus living inside of me and I'm blackened with sin. I hate the thought of being away from my Savior. Well I was reading in Mark today and in Mark 1:9-12 (the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist) was very interesting. As I began to question it further I wondered whether or not Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit before that time or not. My first thought was of course He was, I mean He's Jesus. However as I began to dig deeper and think on this more it dawned on me that He did not have the Holy Spirit indwelling (living inside) of Him yet. Well when He was born He did not come into this world with His "Omnis" or the power to be all knowing, all present, and all powerful. He left those behind and jumped off His throne and came to earth and was fully man and lived as a man. However you can't be anything other than yourself and neither can God. So when Jesus came down to earth He was born with divine nature and not carnal nature. This is the reason that when he was 12 He was able to be in the temple asking questions and wanting to know more about His Father. It tells us that as soon as He was baptized by John the Baptist that He came up out of the water and something LIKE a dove descended on Him. I always like that because it says LIKE not that an actual dove descended on Him but something LIKE a dove. Which in my mind means peaceful and gracious. But the spirit descended on Him and He was filled with the Holy Spirit. The beauty of this whole scene is that John the Baptist was a messenger of God (which translated means an extension of) and by being that God actually baptized His own Son. Then the sky opened up and we hear an audible voice after 400 years of silence. So Jesus went through all we went through because He was fully man. But He was also fully God in that He had a divine nature and was able to receive the Father's wisdom and power. I love it because Jesus was the prototype for how we should live. He is called the second Adam because the first one chose himself over God. However Christ came so that we may have this indweltness of the Holy Spirit. It went from an external God like in the Old Testament to an internal God who lives insides and is in control. I want so much for the Holy Spirit to indwell me. I have to have Him come inside and radically change the areas of my life that aren't focused on Him. We have heard the expression of garbage in, garbage out. Well let's flip that to Jesus in, Jesus out. Let the words of my mouth and my desire, and my passions and desires be all for the glory of Jesus. If I am living any other way I'm not letting the very person of Christ indwell me! Let me be A Man Indwelt with Jesus and make it obvious to those around me!