J T Mawson

Hear what Paul says "I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST." He had seen the righteous judgment of what he was as a wild briar at the cross of Christ. "NEVERTHELESS I LIVE." Grace had given him a place in God's tillage, the only place of true life. "YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME." The life of the heavenly scion was seen in him and not the energy of the old briar. "AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME." He brought forth the heavenly flowers in the joy of what he had learnt Christ to be; he responded to the bright shining of that love that had become wholly his life, glad to be nothing himself and less than nothing that Christ might be everything: that Christ might be magnified in him whether by life or by death.