HIGH SPIRITED-3

We've seen the spiritual life is God choosing us, God's coming to us and our receiving His Spirit.  Are we aware of this?  Our is our activity and religious knowledge and desire to escape a fallen world nothing but flattening the world?
  It may be no wonder Paul prays that the eyes of our heart may be enlightened.  Jesus warned that--the lamp of the body is the eye; if your eye is clear your whole body will be full of light.
  Elisha prayed God would open the eyes of his servant to see--the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.  We don't always see the angels and Spirit of God surrounding us, so we pray.
  In John 12 Jesus is heading toward His crucifixion.  He tells a multitude that He will not be with them much longer.  He says--While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.  Jesus is preparing His disciples for the time when they will no longer be followers but sons.  Through the Spirit they will be to Jesus what Jesus was at that time to His Father.  He was the Son of God, they will be sons of light.
  Jesus then gives in a few words the method of spirituality.  When the crowd mumbled and gossiped about Him, Jesus cried out over their entangling voices--He who believes in Me does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.  It is as if the belief rose to heaven, straight from the Father. We can just about see the outlines of the ascension.  The disciples believe in Jesus; their belief ascends to the Father because Jesus as the Son of God goes to the Father.
  In the next verse Jesus says the same thing, intensifying His thought--And he who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me.  I have come as light into the world that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in darkness.
  What Jesus did, the disciples will do.  They will speak the word of God, they will heal, they will show the love of God, they will live in the fellowship of the Spirit when it is given at Pentecost.  Jesus summarizes this 'passing along the baton' when He says--For I have given you an example that you also should do as I did to you.
  He then washes the feet of the disciples.  In chapter 14 Jesus elaborates on what He's been saying.  First, He tells Philip--If you've seen Me you've seen the Father.  Then He tells all the disciples of the power they will receive from Him--if you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
  Finally in John 15 Jesus speaks the culmination of what He has been saying.  For the last 3 chapters He has been pencilling in what it means to be in Christ.  The Father sends the Son, so Jesus sends His disciples; the Father gives Jesus glory so Jesus gives glory to His followers.  And as Jesus will ascend to heaven,so will we--Abide in Me, and I in you.
  The entire chapter 15 is the unity of the believer in Christ.  When we have tried to see the union with Christ from the outside, we notice the grafting in, the putting on of Christ, the covering, and theological terms like sanctification.  But when we read the Scriptures depending on the Holy Spirit to lead us in the way of union with Christ, He does.