A Supernatural Transfusion

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live;
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me...
Galatians 2:20

The true Christian life, which begins with a super-
natural transition, consists and continues in a
supernatural transfusion.

The very life and nature of Christ are transfused
into the innermost being of the Christian believer
by the Holy Spirit. Thus our Savior's word is ful-
filled: "Because I live, ye shall live also." John
14:19. Paul not only says, "I live, yet not I;" he
goes on to say, "but Christ liveth in me." There
is not only transition; there is transfusion. This is
the most precious sacred secret of the Christian
life. The man of the world neither understands it
nor even suspects it. Yet oh, how real it is to our
Lord's own!

Now just because of this supernatural transfu-
sion, the New Testament ideal for our Christian
life is that there will be within us a continual
displacement of the old self-life, and an ever-
clearer enthronement of the new Christ-life.
All of us, by nature, are ego-centric, self-cen-
tered; but we are meant to become Christ-
centered. Christ is to be the new life within
our life; the new mind within our mind; the
new will within our will; the new love within
our love; the new Person within our personality...

The whole of our consciousness is meant to
be penetrated with the consciousness of His
indwelling life and mind and will and love,
even as the air in Summer is transfused with
sunshine.

- J Sidlow Baxter (1903-1999)