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Wednesday December 10, 2025
Not emotion but reality
“This business of emotions is most important, because dozens of Christians live with their feet dragging with a sense of condemnation and failure because they feel away from God, or they feel cold, or they feel guilty, or they feel weak, and so on.
They haven’t discerned between the variable emotions of the soul and the unvarying reality of spirit–where God’s Spirit of love is eternally our other self in our spirit.
How can I be cold when I’ve got that permanent fire within me–Jesus Christ?
Move back from your soul-affections and say, ‘No, He’s here.’
How can I feel dry when I have a permanent well of water inside me–Jesus Christ?
You move back from your affections, your emotions, to the real love-center–because ‘He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.’
The other verse that goes with that one, which I always think is so marvelous, is perhaps my favorite in the Bible. It is Galatians 2:20, where Paul says, ‘I am crucified with Christ…’
That’s the old Paul out.
Then he says, ‘…nevertheless, I live.’
That’s the new Paul in Christ: a living thinking, willing, feeling, battling human. A real person.
But listen: then he corrects himself and adds, ‘Yet not I, but Christ lives in me.’
He could very easily have said, ‘Nevertheless I live and Christ lives in me’–as if Christ lived near him or close by him.
But you see, he replaced self by Christ.
That’s the point.
He said, ‘Nevertheless, I live–excuse me, the real I isn’t I at all, it is Christ.’
In other words, your other self is Christ. It is not you, it’s Christ. There are two selves joined in one; and the other self is Christ.
That’s why it’s indivisible. That’s why it’s ridiculous to look around or above and try to find Christ.
You don’t try to find yourself, do you? Wherever you go, you are there, aren’t you?
However you feel about it, you can’t escape your self.
And your other self is Christ; you can’t escape Him either!
I’m sorry if Christ has to go where you go! But that’s His business!
In the Grace of God, Jesus Christ tied Himself to us.
Isn’t that amazing? You can’t escape Him.
Where you go, He goes. He’s your other self; He’s not you.
You’re you; He’s He.
You contain Him; He motivates you. And you learn the habits of this abiding life.
He is the one who lives it.
You are His means of expressing Himself.”
Taken from: “The Key to Everything.”
By Norman Grubb
Pages 43-46
