When we understand how fully God knows us and loves us it is meant to change us. We are one with Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, not only to will and want Him but to do His good pleasure. Our bodies are an important part of the work of Christ. He was bodily raised from the dead so that we might know our bodies are not a meaningless shell housing an eternal spirit. The incarnation tells us the same thing, He came in the flesh, lived and worked in the flesh and died in the flesh. We must, however, not be dominated by things but, rather, by the Holy Spirit. His love for us was from eternity through eternity and He intimately knows us and gave us the Spirit that we might more fully know Him, unhindered by sin.
