Angels cannot say, "Abba, Father;" it marks to the Father's mind our association with the Son of His love.
What an immeasurable blessing that ours is a life with Christ in God! I often ask myself'. whether I. really believe it. On the other hand I know it to be an indisputable fact, and yet I ask, "How is it, if I have it, that I can live so below it,, as though my life were down here?" And again, " If I have a natural life bringing me down to things so low, how can I be occupied with things so high?" Really to believe that I am one with Christ would make a thousand cares drop off. In the morning one wakes up in astonishment-realizing it, but why cannot one act all day on the reality of it before God? One rises saying, It is a fact that He is my life, and I will act it out, letting it be seen in all I do that Christ's life is my life; and yet perhaps before one leaves the room something comes in between, so that one ceases to substantiate the fact of it in the soul.
Ah! that thought, " I am one with Christ," is the great power in the mind, giving 4-,5 the heart a living warmth. The realization of having one life with that One up there-the Nazarene-would turn a London fog into the bright light of the glory He is in above.
If the life of Christ is flowing through us, the water from the Rock turning the wheel, as it flows into the heart, it will fill us with joy; and if so, we cannot contain it, it must flow out.
If taken up with my broken, aching body, I am forgetting that I am one with Christ above. This body does" beautifully for a light-house, but we are not to be looking at little trials down here. You can say to everything this world can offer, "I have this which you have not; I am in Christ, and everything He has, belongs to me." As soon as you get to this side of life with Christ, the death of Christ closes over everything here.
We are brought out of the scene in which everything circles round man, into that in which everything is the expression of God.
It is Christ Himself who is our life-we are related to the Christ of God in the most vital way, having one life with Him when He appears, we shall appear with Him, and all that characterizes His manifestation in glory, will characterize us.