Section 4
He abides in us, lives in us, settles down in us, and then saturates every part of our being.
CONSTITUTED OF CHRIST
As Christians, we differ in the measure of Christ we have within us. Some have given more ground to Christ; others have given Him less room to grow in them. No doubt Paul's measure of Christ was full. This means that Christ had been fully formed in him. In Philippians 1:21 Paul could even declare, "To me to live is Christ." Christ had been wrought into Paul and had actually become his constituent. Therefore, Paul was a man completely constituted of Christ. This was the reason he could say that to him to live was Christ.
Dietitians often tell us that we are what we eat. The food we eat eventually becomes our constitution. It is wrought into our fibers and even our cells. If a person eats a great deal of a certain food, he will eventually become con stituted of that food.
By the time Paul wrote the book of Phi lippians, he had been a believer in Christ for nearly thirty years. Throughout those years, Christ had been more and more wrought into Paul's inner being. Paul was continually eating