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Wednesday January 14, 2026
Free to be!
“What kind of person am I, now that it is settled by the Word and inner witness that my real inner self is Christ in me? How do I now in fact function as a human? Paul nicely slipped into his Galatians 2:20 statement, ‘yet not I, but Christ lives in me.’ He did not just say ‘lives,’ as if I am Christ. So back I came to realize that I am still the lamp–now absorbed in reflecting the light but still the lamp. but now–all important–what a different understanding of the lamp! Now it is no longer a spoiled lamp under constant questioning, suspicion and condemnation. I now accept myself as a right self. If I am good enough for Him to accept and dwell in and express Himself by, I am good enough to accept myself just as I am.
It was perhaps the most important and revolutionary new recognition when at last I got Romans 7:17 into focus–that I never was a ‘bad’ self in my God-created humanity, as if something had poisoned my humanity–my being as a human. No, I can accept myself because the bad or good is the expression of the deity nature in me/as me–change of deity, change of owner, not change of my humanity–except that my physical body is the mortal part of me in which I long for a change (Rom. 8:23-25; 2 Cor. 5:1-8).
So I am free to be. Where I used to live in a continuous warning red light on my failures, sins and weaknesses, now I live in a green light. I think my thoughts, make my choices, do my daily jobs as right, not wrong. I refuse waves of that old sense of self-failure sweeping over me. Impossible indeed is that old false consciousness of self-relying self apparently running itself and merely ‘helped’ by the Lord, and so often tricked by Satan. Now I do accept myself and act freely as a full self because I have that fixed inner witness that it is actually He as me.”
Taken from: “To All Believers…It’s as Simple as This”
By Norman Grubb
Pages 27-28
