Uplifted Through Grafting
UPLIFTED THROUGH GRAFTING
Furthermore, according to the natural law ordained by God, it is not the poor life that affects the richer life but the richer life that affects the poor life. In fact, the rich life will swallow up all the defects of the poor life and thus transform the poor life. In the same principle, when we are grafted into Christ, Christ swallows up our de fects, but He does not eliminate our own life. On the contrary, as He swallows our defects, He uplifts our humanity. He uplifts our mind, will, emotion, and all our virtues.
DISPENSING, MINGLING, AND ABIDING
In John 14:20 the Lord Jesus said, "In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you." The day spoken of here is the day of Christ's resurrection. In this verse the Lord was saying that on the day of His resurrec tion His disciples would know that He is in the Father, that they are in Him, and that He is in them. This is not an exchange of one life for another—it is a mingling of lives. The Lord is in us and we are in Him. This is the mingling that comes from the dispensing, the infusing, of the life of the Triune God into us.