I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but
Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20
You see what is
happening. The Christ Himself, the Son of God who is man (just like you) and
God (just like His Father) is actually at your side and is already at that
moment beginning to turn your pretense into a reality. This is not merely a
fancy way of saying that your conscience is telling you what to do. If you
simply ask your conscience, you get one result; if you remember that you are
dressing up as Christ, you get a different one. There are lots of things which
your conscience might not call definitely wrong (especially things in your
mind) but which you will see at once you cannot go on doing if you are
seriously trying to be like Christ. For you are no longer thinking simply about
right and wrong; you are trying to catch the good infection from a Person. It
is more like painting a portrait than like obeying a set of rules. And the odd
thing is that while in one way it is much harder than keeping rules, in another
way it is far easier.
The real Son of God is
at your side. He is beginning to turn you into the same kind of thing as
Himself. He is beginning, so to speak, to 'inject' His kind of life and
thought, His Zoe, into you; beginning to turn the tin soldier into a
live man. The part of you that does not like it is the part that is still tin.
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