Read Colossians 1:24-29

“To [the saints] God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)

Paul here speaks of a mystery found in the Word of God, which was once hidden, but now revealed to us, God's saints. And within this mystery, Paul says, "God has willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery."

And so what is this mystery, once concealed now revealed? What is this mystery that God has willed to make known to us, Christ’s church?

It is: Christ in you, the hope of glory!

Don't miss this! This is a huge theological statement with extraordinary application. This same Christ — the one who is preeminent over all of creation and who is head over all of the church, who is the image of the invisible God, and in whom all things consists, within whom dwells all of the Fullness of the Godhead — this same Christ is now dwelling in you!

Christ has made His home in you. Meditate upon that!

Never once could anyone have ever possibly imagined that the Almighty God, whose manifest presence was only known and only dwelling in between the cherubim of the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant, where only one man, the high priest, could enter but once per year on Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement), that He would one day choose to make His temple a people in dwelt with Himself through Christ.

The closest anyone came in the Old Covenant to the dwelling place of God was the high priest. For everyone else, the closest anyone came was to stand outside in the courts of the temple. And even more, the closest any Gentile could ever come to the dwelling place of God was to stand in the outer courts of the temple.

But now — in the New Covenant — all of the riches of God’s glory is found in the person of Christ, and the person of Christ now is dwelling in you — regardless of whether you are a Jew or a Gentile.

Isn't this exactly what Jesus promised His disciples?

“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” (John 14:23)

And that theological fact alone is what gives us the hope of glory, as Paul said — a clear reference to the hope of that final day in glory when we are resurrected just as Christ is, and all things are made new, when death is defeated and pain is no more.

Beloved, I want to encourage you to remember this simple truth: Christ is dwelling in you. Christ is your hope. Whatever may come, He will give you His wisdom and His strength to overcome what's next. And to make things better — He's already told you how it ends: Glory!

“[I pray] that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” (Ephesians 3:16–21)

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