A NEW MAN
A NEW MAN
How simple it is if we accept the course of the Spirit! In the festive day Isaac got his right place, and the rival was found to be an intruder. I believe the practical difficulty with us all is to displace the man. Everyone likes to acquire what is good, and to be advancing in the good; but no one likes to exchange himself for another. The old man, his tastes, abilities, etc., all have to go, and the new man to come in in his place; not Adam in any form or quality, but Christ living in me. How blessed! We shall only know one another in the new man by-and-by.
It comes out to me more and more, the entire newness of the man in Christ. I think we have had but a very small idea of the great difference between the earthly man and the heavenly, and here, I am sure, all our difficulties arise. I find here, and indeed everywhere, there is not a faint idea of changing from Adam to Christ, and consequently there is little or no conception of the spiritual magnitude of His house “where thine honour dwelleth”.