God Operating In Us
GOD OPERATING IN US
Philippians 2:13 says, "For it is God who oper ates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure." The little word "for" at the beginning of verse 13 connects it to verse 12. This indicates that we can work out our own sal vation because God is operating in us. Salva tion is the pattern, and God is the One who is operating, working this pattern into us. There fore, we may say that salvation is God Himself operating in us. Salvation, the pattern, and God are not three separate things; they are one. The pattern is the salvation, and the salvation is God. Here we have one thing in three aspects. The pattern is Christ, the God-man, who emptied and humbled Himself and who has been exalted and glorified by God. This Christ, however, is the very God Himself to be the daily salvation for us to work out. Furthermore, this salvation is actually the God who is operating in us.
The matter of God operating in us to be our salvation should not merely be a doctrine, but should be something we experience in a prac tical way day by day. Often when a sister is complaining or murmuring, she may sense that something within is constraining her and urging