I can trace everything connected with my circumstances, and what I am here, to the first Adam; but, connected with all my blessings in Christ, I have to go up there where my life is hid with Him in God. How wondrous the grace of God! His mercy does not rest merely in the cleansing blood, vast as that blessing is, but it puts the sinner into association with the Son, in life above (Col. 3:3). God reckoned to Him our guilt; and if we are freed from guilt and in association with Christ in life, we get power from Him to walk as living men.