1. The first time I mentioned the possibility of writing these short bursts about the inner life, a young Christian friend of mine asked, “Could you be more specific?” Good question, Lane!
“What are you talking about?” is always a fair question. If I know what I am doing, I should be able to answer in one or two sentences.
The inner life is where God dwells within us. We are talking about our spiritual life when we say we have a personal relationship with Christ. Your inner life is where this relationship takes place; where you are transformed into the likeness of Jesus Christ.
The alveoli in our lungs act as a permeable barrier through which the oxygen we breathe is diffused into our red blood cells. The alveoli comprise the place where this miraculous exchange is made between the respiratory and circulatory systems.
While oxygen is all around us in the air, it will do us no good unless it becomes a part of our personal biological life. The oxygen out there becomes the oxygen in me.
In the same way, our Lord Christ is out there everywhere with spiritual life. When we become students of the interior life we raise our awareness of the place in me where God makes possible our own spiritual life by his indwelling. He gives us His touch of the divine life, which the Bible refers to as “Christ in me,” “the Spirit of God living in you,” or, simply, “the renewed inner man.”
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