We are made participants (partners) of Christ, as long as we hold firmly to the end our confidence of the beginning.
Hebrews 3:14

(Jesus said :) Behold, I stand at the door and knock; If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:20

The word "companion" means "one with whom bread is shared", with whom one shares everything, joys and sorrows. This epithet was given by the apostle Paul to the believers. We are the participants or companions of Christ. When we were his enemies, he accepted to endure in our place the judgment that we deserved. He was God's "companion" (Zechariah 13: 7), yet he was exposed to his wrath against sin, taking upon himself our own sins to atone for them. Now he calls us his companions, his brothers.

We can never appreciate this favor enough. Because it is a privilege to be associated with him. He invites us to share everything with him on earth, our daily life, our happiness, our difficulties, our loneliness, our questions regarding the future of our families. Jesus did not have an easy life. He got tired, was rejected and hated without cause. We should not expect something better. But living in his company we will be transformed in his image (2 Corinthians 3:18) and we will carry his characters of holiness and compassion in the midst of a hostile world.

And we will also be his witnesses.

Let us remember the apostles Peter and John:
because of their behavior they recognized them as disciples of Jesus;
"Knowing that they were men without letters and of the vulgar, they marveled; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus "(Acts 4:13).

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