People have a notion of a mystical union with Christ as an ideal thing. But the word is very explicit. "Ile that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit." I am more really united to Christ than my hand is to my body; for the life of the latter union is in my blood, but that of former in the power of the Holy Ghost.
This is an amazing truth-that I am livingly united to Christ at this moment. It is not merely that He has done certain things which suppose that I was in Him as to their value, so that I have peace, but a whole class of affections spring from the realization of this union. I am drawing life from Christ with every affection that Christ has in me.
And as to power-I am in the Lord; and when strong in the Lord, whatever Christ is competent for, I am competent. for; or, as the apostle has it, " I can do all things through Christ which strengthened' me."
In life Christ was God- before man to win man's confidence. Christ on- the cross was man before God bearing the judgment of man's sin, that He might bless him righteously with Himself in Heaven.