The Most Important Person is Christ in You

In the early years of Sesame Street, one of the songs that the puppets would sing including the following verse:

"The most important person in the world is you, and you've barely met him."

For the believer, the most important person in the world is Jesus, who lives in us, and we need to met Him more and more every day.

"But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen." (2 Peter 3: 18)

Without Christ, we are dead in our trespasses:

"And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:"" (Ephesians 2: 1-2)

All the "Self-esteem" movements of today are meaningless, because a man can hold himself in high regard, but he is still dead, alienated from God the Father and Creator:

"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

"Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart." (Ephesians 4: 17-18)

But for those who believe, Christ Jesus now lives in us, and He wants us to live through us:

"Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

"Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

"To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." (Colossians 1: 25-27)

When we read God's Word, we meet Jesus in new ways:

"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." (John 5: 39)

Paul prayed for the Ephesians to grow in knowledge of the power in them through Christ:

"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

"And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

"Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places." (Ephesians 1:17-20)

We have the same power in us that raised Christ from the dead! We have his life in us!

"Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." (1 John 3: 16)

and

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2: 20)

The most important is Christ in you (Colossians 1: 27) Get to know Him, because:

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)