TOTAL REPLACEMENT

[charlene]

EXCERPT FROM NORMAN GRUBB WRITINGS Topic: "The Liberated Self"….Not
We, but He:
So many know justification as an inner realization, but not
unification. It is possible to recognize even Christ in me as two
separate persons, but not to have come to the consciousness of the
unity by the faith which substantiates a fact, in which He is my Other
Self (the best way I can interpret Paul's ''Nevertheless I live, YET
NOT I, but Christ lives in me''); yet the paradox remains that within
this unity is the duality (the little i and BIG I), and our little i
is the means of the Self-manifestation of the I AM. Marvellous. And
when this fact, which is a fact in all the redeemed becomes through
faith a spontaneous background to our daily living, then we are freed
in our humanity to plunge in with all the zest of living into all the
adventures of faith and witness and loving service of which all life
consists when we have eyes to see it; yet all the time we know (and
can laugh within) at the hidden secret that it is not we at all but HE
living. "As He is, so ARE we", not ought, can, should be. Nothing can
finally satisfy the heart except the knowledge of REPLACEMENT - HE the
real One living, i only living in a secondary sense as the container
and manifestor of Him: HE TAKING THE PLACE of human me, for humanity
was only created to contain Deity: not to become something by itself,
but to contain Someone; therefore we humans can never reach the
foundations of satisfaction, until by revelation; life is not we
living it, but HE.