It is exceedingly important in these days to have Christ as the center of everything to us, so as to be able to say, “To me to live is Christ”; to be walking in the light of His glory shining down upon our path, in everything that glory kept uppermost; not to be allowing two lives to be active in us, the life of the flesh and the life of the Spirit, but to be sinking the life of the flesh and having only the life of Christ living in us.
We want reality, not a name. We want the eternal life in the soul so practically our own that it is seen by the way it works in us and the things that flow forth from it. Wonderful is the effect of “doing truth”!
Look at Paul. What were all those sufferings and all that self-denial of his but an immensely strong argument for all that people heard from his lips?
Seeing him act out the truth gave immense power to it. People might challenge him, but if they did, he could say, “Whether I have done it well or ill, I have been trying all my life to carry out practically the life that Christ has put in me. I may have failed, but my sole desire and aim has been to live Christ. If there is a corner of my heart that Christ has not searched down to the very bottom, I am undone. Ah! I would rather have Christ pointing out everything, than friends praising.”
G. V. Wigram