Section 9
full expression of the divine life. This was the reason He could say, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9), and, "The words which I speak to you, I do not speak from Myself; but the Father who abides in Me, He does His works" (John 14:10). In His living on earth, the Lord Jesus lived the Father and expressed Him.
The life of the Lord Jesus has set up a pattern for us. If we live according to this pattern, we shall count as loss, even as refuse, all religious, cultural, and philosophical things. Furthermore, we shall count as loss the things of habit, custom, and tradition so that we may be fully occupied by Christ. Then whatever we live out day by day will be Christ and Christ alone.
Human virtues are a vessel to contain Christ as the divine content. We have such virtues as forbearance, truthfulness, and dignity. But these are shadows, not the reality; they are vessels or containers, not the content. The divine forbear ance, truthfulness, and dignity are the reality and substance of human forbearance, truthfulness, and dignity. Our virtues are an empty vessel, an empty glove, until Christ comes into us and occu pies every part of our being. But after Christ has occupied us inwardly, filling every part of our inner being, then the "glove" is filled with the