Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Throughout walk 1807 there was this one common theme, even if it was not addressed specifically in any one of the talks. Where are you? Where are you going? What are you doing? A close self-examination is required to answer these questions.

For this example I take myself back to my teenage years in Maine. Dad had lost parts of three fingers on his left hand to an on the job accident. His settlement allowed him to buy land and build his first owned home. One day after demolition experts had blown up most of the granite ledge that needed to be removed, I found myself standing to the side watching my brother-in-law use a backhoe to break up and remove large chunks of rock. It seemed there was nothing for me to do. Then my father spoke to me.

“If you are going to be here, you are going to do something.”

He gave me a two pound sledge hammer and a chisel. To the east of the hole was a large piece of granite that did not seem to be affected by the blast. He said to me, “Break that up and remove it.”

“Can’t do that! This is a small hammer and a small chisel. What do you expect me to do?” I said.

“Well if you just stand there with hammer and chisel in hand, nothing.”

He showed me how to find a place where the chisel would rest in place and not move. No crack, no obvious way to break this huge rock. He said, “Do not strike it hard. Just let the hammer fall on the chisel by its own weight. Your hands will guide the work, but the tools will do the work.”

I broke that rock up and removed it, bit by bit, without breaking the hammer, the chisel or my arm.

What a great picture of using our God given gifts properly.

Galatians 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

The term all in was not used during the walk talks because it sounds like God is taking a gamble on us and that is not the case. But allow me to put my cards on the table.

God did not send His Son like a greeting card slogan. The Word became flesh. (John 1:14) Too often we overlook the significance of what that truly means. God gave up position, a seat on the throne, perfect oneness with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Nothing of Him remained in the throne room. He went all in, coming in form of sinful man, getting here just as we all do, birthed. Yet without sin.

We often look at the cost of the cross because life was given and we live but rarely do we look to see what it cost Him just to get here. We do not know that in our human perspective and we will not until we get to see Him on the throne.

During the Means of Grace talk there was so much to cover about the subject that it was our longest talk. Hidden away within all that material on means of grace was this one little gem which became so precious to me. The physical man Jesus ascended to the Father but He sent the Holy Spirit to be with us. God is One. While the physical form of Jesus cannot be in us, the Holy Spirit can, and He and Jesus are One. You cannot know the Holy Spirit without knowing Jesus.

Here is the greater aspect of Christ in us and it is so important, so simple and so easily overlooked because the Holy Spirit is so tender towards us that He will not force Himself on us because we are human vessels.

Jesus Christ is not less than who He is just because He is in you.

All that Christ is, all that the Holy Spirit is, all that is One, is in you. He is all in.