"With Christ I have been co-crucified; and live no more I, but lives in me Christ; and what now I live in flesh, by faith I live--of (in) the Son--of God--loving me and giving up himself on behalf of me." (Galatians 2:20, Interlinear Greek translation)
The following is from Norman Grubb's book Who Am I?, as reprinted in the devotional book Summit Living:
"There is an underground river flowing in us. It is that the real I is not this human I at all! It is He [the Lord Jesus], of whom my I is an outer form. There is a unity--fixed, eternal, inwardly realized--in which He, the Positive, is the Real One living; and I, the negative, am also real, but really the expression of Him. Now the curious effect is that it is very much I living a human life in all the hurly-burly of human living, yet that is no longer my primary consciousness.
"Here I am with my ups and downs, my ins and outs; I deal with them as they arise, yet they don't upset me or occupy my thinking or produce the usual self-condemning as they used to. I have moved over from having a self-consciousness in the center to a God-consciousness in and through my daily living self. I have begun to live positively, overflowing the fact of my negative human self.
"This is the new spontaneous living. Not one iota new in my environment. I am precisely who I was and where I have been all these years. But I am inwardly new in my consciousness, and, as we have been continually saying, we live by our inner consciousness because we are spirits, inner people."
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