Grafted In Christ

I was thinking about the modern western Christianity concept of salvation. The concept of asking Jesus into your heart, is a fairly modern interpretation of what it means to become a Christian. When Jesus the Christ was born in Bethlehem, He had come as Messiah for the Hebrew people. He had come as the fulfillment of the Torah. He was the embodiment of the Godhead, the expression of God to His people. There really is no comparison that we have as Christians to what it means to have been Jewish. A nation based on faith in God and belief in the Torah as the Word of God.  When Christ came unto His people He came, so that all those who understood that He was the fullfillment of the Law and the Prophets, would receive the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets in their lives. He was the completeness of everything that they were. Now we as Christians are grafted in to the tree. We are a wild branch that has been grafted into the tree that is the Word made manifest. So I think instead of saying we ask Jesus into our hearts, which sounds like He is a guest in our room, think of it this way.... We are grafted into the mighty tree that God has been growing since the garden of Eden, the tree of Life. We become part of that expression of God and we draw our strength from the strong roots of that tree. It is an identity that we have assumed and become not a guest that we have made space for in our lives.  This type of identity in Christ is what allows Christians to face tremendous trials for their faith. This type of identity allows Christians to walk through persecution and affliction because we know that we are grafted in to the tree of eternal life. 
We have such a simple prayer that we ask people to pray. Lord come into my heart and save me. Try this Yeshua! Graft me into the tree of Life and make my identity yours so that when the world sees me they only see You! And then let the fulfillment of every promise made flood through you because that is your portion of that tree! The life blood of the tree is the precious blood of Christ and the power of the Word and the Ruach the Holy Spirit of God. Think of it that way for a minute and get a Hebrew perspective on your identity in Christ.
This is Pastor Susan Living the Everyday Prophetic Life and living life grafted in!