"CHRIST SHALL BE MAGNIFIED IN MY BODY WHETHER BY LIFE OR BY DEATH"
“CHRIST SHALL BE MAGNIFIED IN MY BODY WHETHER BY LIFE OR BY DEATH”
What a wonderful triumph! The body that Satan had the dominion over at first through sin, this very body, brought back by grace to God, becomes the medium that is to set forth Christ. He says, I am possessor of it now; if it go into the grave, I will raise it up again; and whilst it is here, I will so work in it by power that, whatever be the character of this perilous world, it shall be in it a representation of Myself.
What could be a greater delight to you than to know that you are representing Him here where He is not? There can be no change as to what is mine up there where He is, but now, down here where He is not,
[p. 224] I am called to be an exposition of Him whilst He is away. The Lord lead our hearts to understand what a wonderful calling is ours, and enable us to be more and more expressions of the grace and beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ, for His name’s sake.