The following summary of life is from Norman Grubb's February 23, 1982 letter to the Cambridge University Missionary Band as recorded in the book My Dear C.U.MB. (which is an intimate look into Grubb's life):
". . . We humans never functioned by a nature of our own. We were formerly 'by nature children of wrath' and 'of [our] father the devil and the lusts of [our] father we did.' Now in the replacement by Christ's death and resurrection, we are dead to indwelling sin and alive to our indwelling Christ, so that He manifests Himself in our form and we spontaneously 'work the works of God.'
"Our human selfhood was God-made and in His likeness, but was stolen and misused by the false invader [the devil]; and now retained and rightly used by its Rightful Owner [God].
"What freedom now to be ourselves and to function spontaneously, expressing His nature and totally occupied in 'making all men see' as Paul said, the reality of this 'mystery.' [". . . which is Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27)]. "
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