The following insights are from W. Ian Thomas' book The Mystery of Godliness:
"For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith--a faith which by renewed dependence upon God releases His divine action, to restore the marred image of the Invisible God.
"It is not inactivity, but Christ-activity; God in action accomplishing the divine end through human personality . . . .
". . . At first sight this might seem to offer to you the possibility of sinless perfection as a result of spiritual regeneration, but this is far from being the case; for it is only your faith and your obedience which allow Him [the Lord Jesus] to be in you now what He was then (perfect)--and you will be what He was then only to the degree in which you allow Him to be in you what He is now (perfect}!
"All of the Father was available to all of the Son, because of His faith-love relationship, all of the Son was available to all of the Father, and this constituted His perfect manhood; and the availability of the Son to you will be in the degree of your availability to the Son, because of your faith-love relationship to Him!"
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