It is in the heart of God for His people to actually represent (or “represent”) the aspects of His nature that people hunger for. He must be expressed through us. God has set us up to be successful at representing Christ by giving us the promise of His Spirit who would come upon us in power. Peter expressed this wonderfully when he said that we “have been given . . . exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these [we] may be partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4, NKJV).
