Section 7
of speech, we may say that man is like a tire that needs to be filled with air. The air is dispensed into the tire and fills it, but the air is not ex changed for the tire. In like manner, the divine air, the heavenly pneuma, is dispensed into us, but it is not exchanged for our human life. Rather, as we shall see, it is dispensed into us and min gled with us.
Some Christian teachers regard the Christian life as an exchanged life. According to this con cept, our life is poor and Christ's life is superior. Therefore, the Lord asks us to give up our life in exchange for His. We yield our life to Him, and He replaces it with His own life. However, our Christian life is not an exchanged life. It is alto gether a matter of the divine life dispensed, in fused, into our human life. This is a basic concept in the Scriptures.
VESSELS OF HONOR AND GLORY
In the book of Romans Paul uses three illus trations to show the dispensation of the divine life into us. In each illustration we see that the Christian life is not an exchanged life. The first illustration is that of vessels. When a certain con tent is placed in a vessel, an exchange does not take place. On the contrary, there is a dispensation of