Indispensable to our Humanity

The following is from W. Ian Thomas' final book, The Indwelling Life of Christ:

"In assuming our humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ chose to play the role of a human being as God intended man to be.  The One by whom 'all things were created' (Colossians 1:16) chose to be the kind of Man that He, as Creator, had made.

"In declaring that He, as Man, could do nothing without the Father (John 5:19), Christ demonstrated the truth that has always been true--that we as human beings can do nothing without Him.  In the same way that the Father, as God, was indispensable to Christ as Man in His life on earth, Christ as God is now indispensable to us as human beings in our lives.

"To recognize and practice this truth is the nature of true repentance, and without this repentance there can be no true faith, for true repentance compels us to be totally dependent upon Christ as He was totally dependent upon the Father. 

"Christ in us must do the work now as the Father in Him did the work then.  In this way we let God 'loose' in the world.  God Himself becomes the ultimate limit, at His discretion, of what is possible."