The Spirit of the Cross in Us

Aut that Christ was, He was for us and desires ‘to become in us. The spirit of the Cross was His blessedness and glory. It should be this even more for us. He desires to manifest His likeness in us, and to give us a full share of all that is His. Thus Paul writes the words we have so often quoted: ‘Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.’’? Elsewhere he writes: ‘‘We have the mind of Christ.’’ The fellowship of the Cross is not only a holy duty for us, but an unspeakably blessed privilege, which the Holy Spirit Himself will make ours according to the promise: ‘‘He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you’’; ‘‘He shall glorify Me.’’ The Holy Spirit wrought this disposition in Christ and will also work it in us.