Chapter 43—The Indwelling Christ
If we are rooted and grounded in love, we shall be “able to com-
prehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and
height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.” O
precious possibilities and encouragement! In the human heart cleansed
from all moral impurity dwells the precious Saviour, ennobling, sanc-
tifying the whole nature, and making the man a temple for the Holy
Spirit....
His Response to Our Faith
We are abiding in Christ by a living faith. He is abiding in our
hearts by our individual appropriating of faith. We have the com-
panionship of the divine presence, and as we realize this presence
our thoughts are brought into captivity to Jesus Christ. Our spiritual
exercises are in accordance with the vividness of our sense of this
companionship. Enoch walked with God in this way; and Christ is
dwelling in our hearts by faith when we will consider what He is to us,
and what a work He has wrought out for us in the plan of redemption.
We shall be most happy in cultivating a sense of this great gift of God
to our world and to us personally.
These thoughts have a controlling power upon the whole character.
I want to impress upon your mind that you may have a divine com-
panion with you, if you will, always. “And what agreement hath the
temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as
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God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be
their God, and they shall be My people.”
Molded by His Love
As the mind dwells upon Christ, the character is molded after
the divine similitude. The thoughts are pervaded with a sense of His
goodness, His love. We contemplate His character, and thus He is in
all our thoughts. His love encloses us. If we gaze even a moment upon
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