I Live, Yet Not I
Paul said, “He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” In that unity He has become the real I; again as Paul wrote, “I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” In other words Paul did not say that he and Christ lived side by side within him, as if it were “I live and Christ lives in me”; but that though he was a living human, as much after conversion as before, yet the real Paul was no longer himself, but another Self in his place: “I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me.”
The real Paul was Christ walking about and talking, just as Paul wrote in another place, “Ye are the temples of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them.”
That is why Jesus had said, “Ye are the light of the world,” not “You have the light.” If we have a thing it is not we, but just something we hold in our hands, as it were. But Jesus did not say, “You are darkness, but you have Me who am light.” He said, “You are light.” But how could that be when we are darkness and He is the light? Unity. Because He and we are one; therefore, He said, “You are the light.” That is why John wrote, “If we love one another, it is God dwelling in us and His love perfected in us.” Our loving is really He loving by us. Again unity.
Taken from: The Spontaneous You, By Norman Grubb
