Prolonging his days.

The Christian's calling is to be the manifestation of the life of Christ, such that Christ Jesus will literally rule and reign through us. The New Creation is a man who has Christ living  and reigning in and through him! Isaiah 53:10 gives us God's mind concerning Jesus Christ and the Church. It goes, this way, 'Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.' Our emphasis is on this portion: 'He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days'. What does this mean? This particular portion has been marked out by most translators as a 'difficult-to-interpret-text'. Only few translations have the glimmer of the idea. One of such is the Young's Literal Translation. It reads thus, 'And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed--he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper.' This shows us the progressional nature of this revelation. '...he seeth seed- he prolongeth days...' In his seeing of seed is the prolonging of his days. The Christian is an offspring, a result of the work of Christ. Jesus uttered these precious words in John 17:11, 'And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.'  He left us in this world to be his perpetuation. This is the day of Christ, and we are his outshining! Matthew 10:40, 'He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.'  Every part of the body is an offspring of the head and is charged with carrying out the purposes of the head. Jesus is alive through us in this world. He is the head, we are his body and we go by one name, Christ! We live for his glory! We are called to be exhibitions of his glorious person! #Reflection #Pleroma