Home With God: Reflecting on Our Union in Christনমুনা

What Is Union With Christ?

Life with God is possible—In Christ Jesus. Only in Him can we make our home with God. And home with God is what we were created for; it’s what we deeply desire; it’s what we desperately need.

Union with Christ is our home with God. Our union with Christ creates a new me, a new we, a new way, and sets us on the adventure of abiding.

Our union with Christ is not merely the place where we receive forgiveness. Because forgiveness isn’t the goal of God’s salvation. Forgiveness is the foundation of fellowship.

God doesn’t save us so we can merely be forgiven; He saves us so we can be welcomed. In Christ, we aren’t merely acquitted; we are also accepted.

It is in our union with Christ that we are welcomed into beloved fellowship with God. It is in union with Christ that we are welcomed into life with God. We can live with God the Father, because God invites us to live in God the Son, by the power of God the Holy Spirit.

The doctrine of union with Christ is often overlooked, in part, because it lives in the prepositions of the New Testament. I am sure it’s frustrating to our high school English teachers, but we don’t spend too much time worrying about pesky prepositions. We read past them, as if they are transitional words that take us to the real action. Yet they are essential to exploring God’s invitation to making our home with Him in Christ.

But there is treasure locked into these phrases: “in Christ, with Christ, through Christ, into Christ, of Christ.” To say we are “in Christ,” the most common designation we find of this sort, is to say that Christ is now our primary residence. We reside in Him, we live in Him, we are at home in Him.