What is in you?

What is in you?

The box may be elegant and the wrapping paper and ribbons may look fancy but what is inside is what matters most. The moment you receive such a gift, the question arises in your heart and at times comes out of your mouth, "What is inside this?"

The most important question is, "What is inside you?"

How would you know?

Squeeze a tube of toothpaste or a tube of hand cream.

Simply, things that come out of you are an indication of what is inside you!

When you get an injury or when a needle is poked into your vein, blood comes out.

Most of us are careful not to allow the undesirable things within us to show out.

When we are stressed or treated unlovingly or disrespectfully, such things show out as reactions. Anger, fear, hatred, bad words, pride, impatience are some of them. If your reactions are love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and self control, the indication is that CHRIST is in you. The former attitudes indicate that the world is in you. Although all of us are in the world, we need to be careful not to let the spirit of this world get into us. This we do by renewing our minds by the diligent study of the truth of the Bible which is GOD'S word to us.

 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, 

but the Spirit who is from God, 

that we might know the things 

that have been freely given to us by God. 

1 Corinthians 2:12 

Now hope does not disappoint,

because the love of God

 has been poured out in our hearts

 by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 

Romans 5:5

I am the vine, you are the branches. 

He who abides in Me, and I in him,

bears much fruit; 

for without Me you can do nothing.   

John 15:5 

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, 

longsuffering, kindness, goodness,

 faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. 

Against such there is no law. 

Galatians 5:22-23 

 To them 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 

 You are of God, little children,

 and have overcome them, 

because He who is in you

 is greater than he who is in the world. 

1 John 4:4