Section 13
as such. Yet it may simply be a human relation ship without any divine content. But one day the hand of God falls upon it, and the cooperation comes to an end. For some indefinable reason those fellow workers can no longer get on to gether. They are distressed about it and pray and yearn for a restoration of their former harmony, but the more they pray, the more it evades them. Then one day, when they have really died to their old experience, they find themselves in a new relation—not just a oneness of human nature but a oneness that is both human and divine.
Though the old creation has come into being by the mighty hand of the living God, He Him self does not reside within it. It is created by Him, and it displays His might, but it does not display His presence. How can the old creation be trans formed into the new? It is by the incoming of God. But how can His incoming be secured? This is the point at which a major difficulty arises. The old nature must be shattered to make way for Him. Brothers and sisters, everything in your life must pass the supreme test of death in order to make a way for the God of resurrection. If you only know the living God, your knowledge will be too objective. God will be God; you will be you. You need to know the God of resurrection,