Christ, partaking of Him. Eventually, having
Christ, partaking of Him. Eventually, having been constituted of Christ, he became a Christman. As one who was constituted of Christ, he could testify, "To me to live is Christ."
We today should be the continuation of Paul's testimony. We are here to live Christ, to have Christ wrought into us until our mind, emotion, and will are constituted of Him.
A METABOLIC CHANGE
In Romans 12:2 Paul charges us not to be conformed to this age, but to be transformed by the renewing of the mind. To be conformed to this age is to be fashioned outwardly accord ing to the style of the age, according to the trend of the world. To be transformed is to be inwardly and organically renewed.
The more we are transformed, the more Christ is given room to settle down in us. In fact, the process of transformation is the process of being occupied and possessed by Christ. For our mind to be transformed means that Christ has taken possession of it and saturated it with Himself. Likewise, when our emotion and will are saturated with Christ, He becomes the very constituent of these inward parts. In this way Christ becomes subjective to us.