Section 5
circumstances of human life anxiety is present. Anxiety is a word that can sum up human life. The totality of human life is anxiety.
Paul speaks of anxiety in Philippians 4:6 be cause he realizes that it is the totality of man's life. Paul also realized that forbearance is the totality of a proper Christian life. Paul knew that human life is constituted of anxiety and that the Christian life is constituted of forbearance. Thus, to live Christ is to have forbearance with out anxiety.
Just as anxiety is the totality of human life, so forbearance is the totality of the Christian life. This is the reason Paul uses the words forbear ance and anxiety together in charging the saints. Positively, we should make known our forbear ance. All those who come in contact with us should know our forbearance. Negatively, we need to have a life without anxiety.
LIVING CHRIST
In Galatians 2:20 Paul says, "I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me." Years ago, I began to read books on this verse. However, I could not understand what it meant for Christ to live in me. The explanation of Galatians 2:20 is found not