It is a wondrous consolation, and a profound depth of joy that we can say as we walk about this world, Christ is my life-yes! I can point to Him and say, that is what my life is. If we look to ourselves we see failure. The measure and pattern is -ever spoiled in me. But we look to Christ and we see devotedness, purity, perfection. Oh what comfort and thorough joy, with the stamp of eternity on it, is there in thus seeing the eternal beauty of Christ-" And this life in his Son." 1 John 5:1111And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (1 John 5:11).
My soul can look at the Son in all the perfect display in which He is in heaven, and then say, He is my life. And surely it is in the measure that we trust in Him and delight in Him, that we can see Him as this Life. True, it is that He thus judges all that is inconsistent in me, but then, the consistent One is mine.
Being before the Tribunal in the life and glory of the Son, we shall learn and see with delight all God's ways of grace toward us.
May the Lord give us to be delivered from every reserve in our ptiOr hearts as to the perfect power of life in Christ (which is ours), to enable us to triumph over death. the world, and sin; and to live, not unto ourselves, but unto Him who died for us and rose again.