I remember the first day I wore some to work. I was on the elevator with several other nurses in my unit and one commented on how pretty my top was. When I told her it came from the maternity store she replied, "You aren't pregnant enough to wear maternity clothes." Her words hurt my feelings and took the wind out of my sails that day.
The truth is from the moment of conception changes and processes begin in the woman's body to stamp her as pregnant. She is no less pregnant at eight weeks than she is at forty weeks. It may be more evident to everyone at forty weeks that she is pregnant, and she will know her pregnancy more and the effects of the pregnancy on her body, but she is no more pregnant than she was in the beginning.
As Christians, believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, He will never be more in our spirits than He is in this very minute.
"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone. In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." Ephesians 19-22
Our spirits are a holy temple for the Spirit of God and when He enters, He fills us completely. He joins Himself to us in a way the Scriptures compare to a husband and wife, and calls the result "one spirit."
"But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." (I Corinthians 6:17.)
We can rest upon the fact that the Lord Jesus indwells us by His Spirit regardless of what we do and don't do. What we do can never change the fact of who we are in Him. Just as I may stop having fellowship with my son for some reason (God forbid,) it will never change the fact that he is my son. His sonship and my parenthood are imprinted on his very DNA.
Our sonship in Christ and the Father's parenthood of us are forever imprinted on the hands and feet of the Lord Jesus. If we are tempted to doubt this -- and most Christians are at some point -- just remember those nailscarred hands. They are our "adoption papers" signifying that we belong to the Lord, forever and ever. We are not a "little saved" we are fully saved and sanctified unto the glory of the Lord in Christ Jesus forever.
By the which will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:10
For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Hebrew 10:14
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