The Christ

own will. He is the Risen” One, who lives for evermore. Living in” Him we share His resurrection power, and walk in newness of life, a life that has triumphed over sin and death. He is THE Exalted One, sitting on the throne and carrying on His work for the salvation of men. Living IN Him His love possesses us, and we give ourselves to Him to use in winning the world back to God. Being in Christ, abiding in Him, means nothing less than that the soul is placed by God Himself in the midst of this wonderful environment of the life of Christ at once human and Divine, utterly given up to God, in obedience and sacrifice, wholly filled with God in resurrection life and glory. The nature and character of Jesus Christ — His dispositions and affections. His power and glory — these are the elements in which we live, the air we breathe, the life in which our life exists and grows.

The full manifestations of God and His saving love can come in no other way than by indwelling. In virtue of Christ’s Divinity and Divine power. He can, just so far as we abide in Him, dwell in us. As far as the heart with its love is given to Him in faith, and the will in active obedience, He comes in and makes abode in us. We can say, because we know: — Christ liveth in me.

And now, to come to our main purpose, if this life, Christ in us and we in Him, is to be our real working-day life, its spirit must be renewed and strengthened in the personal intercourse with God with which we begin the day in the morning watch. Our access to God, our sacrifice to God, our expectation from God, must all be in Christ, in the living fellowship with Him. If ever you feel that you want to get nearer to God, to realise His presence or power, or love, or will, or working, more fully, in one word to have more of God — come to God in Christ. Think of how, as man on earth, He drew nigh to the Father in deep humility and dependence, in full surrender and entire obedience, and come in His spirit and disposition, in union with Him. Seek to take the very place before God that Christ has taken in heaven, that of an accomplished redemption, of a perfect victory, of full entrance to God’s glory. Take the very place before God that Christ took on earth on His way to the victory and the glory. Do it in the faith of His indwelling and enabling power in you here on earth; count confidently on your approach being accepted not according to your attainment, but according to the uprightness of your heart’s surrender, and the completeness of your acceptance in Christ, and you will be led on in the path in which, Christ living in you and speaking in you, will be truth and power.