“I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” (Gal. 2:20)
When you say, “It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me,” you also stay in the wound, the death, of Christ. At the same time, Christ secretes His resurrection life around you, making you a pearl for His expression. When you deny yourself by staying in His death and live by taking your Redeemer as your life, Christ as the lamp is shining from within you, and based upon His redemptive death, He is secreting His divine life over you to make you a pearl. This is our expression of Christ in His person and with His work of death and resurrection.*
Our feelings and thinking might not match Galatians 2:20, but we should still declare this verse with our spirit of faith exercised (2 Cor. 4:13), standing with the spiritual fact rather than with our feelings. The facts of this verse are “in faith” not in feelings. This faith is “the faith of the Son of God” and it has become our faith.
The more we experience Galatians 2:20, the more we are in the reality of New Jerusalem.
* From chapter 44, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986
Posted by Don on November 27, 2023
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