The Law of Assumption teaches a powerful idea: instead of allowing present appearances to define reality, inwardly occupy the state in which the desire has already been fulfilled. Scripture contains something that initially sounds similar because Jesus tells us to believe that we receive before the answer becomes visible. Yet the Gospel carries this principle far beyond imagining a desired future, because Christianity begins with an accomplished state that no human imagination could create. Jesus Christ has risen from the dead.
The resurrection is not merely evidence that Christianity is true or a miraculous ending added to the story of the cross. It establishes an entirely different condition of existence. Death no longer has dominion over Christ, all power has been given unto Him, He possesses the keys of death and hell, and He has been exalted far above principality, power, might, and dominion. Scripture then makes the astonishing claim that believers have been raised with Him and seated with Him in heavenly places.
This changes the meaning of living in the end. The believer is not merely trying to imagine a future condition vividly enough for it to become real. The deeper work is awakening to a resurrection reality that God says is already true in Christ and learning to perceive, desire, judge, act, and receive from that position.
“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.” Colossians 3:1 KJV