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We are to come into Christ, by letting the old self "go" --
die to our consciousness, and know Christ to be all. All
therefore of me.
Jesus knew perfectly that he was nothing apart from
the Divine, but recognizing his Divinity, declared all
power, life, perfection and truth to be his, because of his
relation to the Infinite. No other has yet comprehended
this as Jesus did, but "All shall know Him."
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, . . . but
we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like
Him." When we are like Him, he shall appear to us
again. Then we shall be able to see Him.
"Christ in you, your hope of glory." -- Col. 1:27. The
Divine in you is your claim upon God, and through It and
in It shall you be glorified.
"In His Son the Father sees us,
And as Sons He gives us place."
How shall I truly accept Christ as my substitute? By
putting myself -- as I have thought myself to be, -- entirely out of mind, and where I have looked upon self, see
Christ as the Only Self. I can then say with Paul, "I no
longer
live, but Christ liveth in me," or in place of the old
me. This is true self-sacrifice, to be made "Once for all."
We have been trying to patch up and make better the
old self. We have repented of a sin here, and a shortcoming there, and where the sin has rent the soul, we
have tried to put in a new piece, a better condition.
Shall we recall Jesus' words: "No man putteth a piece
of new cloth into an old garment -- for the rent is made
worse." -- Matt. 9:16. This is just what we have endeavored to do, to patch up our old lives with new Christ-life.
What has been the result? Is sin destroyed and its effects banished?
If not, let us listen to the "new" way. Entirely discard
