Knowing the Inner Man
Eph 3:14-20
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breath and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations.
2 Cor 4: 16-18
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things seen; for what is seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
I think so many time we worry about the needs of our outer man, that we miss the provision of the Father. It is important for us to know who we our in the inner man, because that is who we really are, that is where we can come into the eternal purposes of our Father. That is where we can fulfill the good works that the Father has called us to do in Christ. The inner man is the man we are becoming, so we can do the works Jesus did and yet greater, you are never going to do great works for the Father by your flesh, it is only by the spirit. The outer man has to die, so the inner man can come into his purpose.
I believe you will never come into the understanding of the Kingdom and the purpose of our Father, until we come into the knowing of who we are in Christ by the spirit man. We are to know one another after the inner man not the outer man.
Grace on your journey.
Doug