Here is a great mystery of our Faith. Christ on earth proclaiming that:
" No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven." John 3:13
How could He, He who was on earth at the time, could say the Son of Man who is in Heaven? This sounds like one of those Lord intelligences that He said to Nicodemus, "you must be born again" or to the Pharisees, "before Abraham was, I am". When you come across words of the Lord in a parable, take the habit of the disciples; put yourself at the feet of the Lord and ask him: Lord explain to me what this parable means. The Lord always explains to the disciples the hidden things of the Kingdom.
You in Christ
As the bride of Christ, God has placed us in his hands. And the bridegroom says:
"Abide in me ... as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me ... bears much fruit, for without me you can do nothing" John 15:4-5.
This is the invitation of the bridegroom. Christ calls us to intimacy, to communion, to union and to total dependence. It is from this communion that the new life begins, of which Jesus spoke to Nicodemus :
"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17
Christ in you
"Abide in me, and I will abide in you" John 15:4
While you are staying with the bridegroom, you will become pregnant and the child you will bear will be a Holy Child. The bridegroom will give you his seed and you will bear his image in you, his son, his offspring, his kind, his race. As Mary bore him in her body, you will bear him first in your spirit, then in your soul and finally in your body to manifest him to the world around you.
"He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit. John 15:5
Conclusion
Like a pregnant woman looking to her husband, we have two positions of relationship with Christ, in one sense, He is the mighty King of Heaven and Earth, seated at the right hand of the divine majesty in the heavenly places. He is great, beautiful, in love with us and cares for us. From his heavenly position, he is our defender, our advocate, our protector, our provider, our coach, our Lord and our God.
In the other position, he sowed his seed in us so that we would be made like his image, a reproduction on earth after his kind. A small, weak Christ, given over to our care, to the weakness and fragility of our humanity. Like a child, he awaits our assistance, our love, our affection, our security. If you ask yourself "How is it possible that the Almighty God stoops?", what you ask yourself is how a man who has grown up can return to his mother's womb? Or how before Abraham was, He is. And yes, we have a powerful God, all powerful, infinitely powerful. But when it comes to man, He becomes love, a love that makes him come down from his throne, a love for which he puts aside his royalty, he becomes a small grain, a weak plant, a child, a servant, a sacrifice.
A heavenly God who nevertheless came down from Heaven. So:
"We carry this treasure in earthen vessels, so that this great power may be attributed to God, and not to us" 2 Corinthians 4:7
"Jesus answered and said unto him, If any man love me, he shall keep my word, and my Father shall love him; and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." John 14:23
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16
"... the mystery hidden from all times and in all ages, but now revealed to his saints, whom God has willed to make known what is the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, namely: Christ in you, the hope of glory." Colossians 1:26-27
The most powerful thing about these two dimensions of relationship with Christ is that they are not separable. Christ in us involves us in Christ and we Christ involves Christ in us, as in a mirror:
sformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 3
Set your eyes on the heavenly Christ, He will make His dwelling in you, as He grows in you, He will conform you from glory to glory in the image of the Father.
"... until we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the state of a full man, to the measure of the perfect stature of Christ" Ephesians4:3
Your brother in Christ, Néo SONDI Christian