But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him (1 Corinthians 6:17).
When I read about being one with the Lord in Spirit, I immediately think back to the earthly example of this that God gives us all the way back in the Garden of Eden:
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh (Genesis 2:24).
Yes, part of what this verse is talking about is the sexual union between a husband and wife, but it actually goes much, much deeper than that. As we see later when Jesus quotes this verse in his response to the Pharisees, this union is the literal joining together of two individuals by God.
Two separate persons becoming one in spirit.
As I write this, it’s been just over a week since my wedding. Needless to say, this idea of “two becoming one” has been on my mind a lot lately.
For the past year or so, I’ve been falling more and more in love with the woman who has now become my wife. During that time, I desired to learn everything I could about her, discover what makes her happy, and learn to avoid doing anything that might make her question why she keeps hanging out with me. I wanted to be with her as much as I could. Even if we were doing nothing together, at least we were together.
As great as this was, at the end of each day she would go back to her house or I would go back to mine, we deposited our paychecks into separate accounts, and we didn’t even have the same last name.
We were together, but we had not yet become one.
Today, however, thanks to the covenant of marriage, we are one. We now share the same house, the same bank account, and the same last name. Deeper than that though, our souls have been joined together by God. We have become one in spirit.
Yes, we are still two distinct individuals, but from here out, we will always be one entity: “The Kuhn’s.”
The same is true with you and Jesus.
There may have been a period before you trusted Christ when you we’re intersted in finding out more about Him—a time when you wished to discover if He truly was who He said He was.
Or perhaps you spent many years trying to impress Him with behavior and sacrifices in order to feel closer to Him (That was my story).
If you’ve never made the commitment of trusting Him as your savior though, you’ve only been courting Him. You’re still going home to separate houses each night.
If, however, you have trusted Jesus with your life, then you’ve already become one with Him in Spirit.
Your eternity has been fully aligned with His eternity.
Your debts were completely satisfied when He added His signature to your spiritual bank account.
Even your heavenly name has been changed to reflect who you are now that you’re in permanent union with Christ.
Everything changed for me the moment I pledged myself to my wife on our wedding day and the two of us became one in God’s eyes. As wonderful as this has been for us though, it is nothing compared to the eternal union we’ve received with our Lord and Savior.
And being able to know that we’ve been made one in spirit with the Lord, well, that is truly something worth celebrating
