[Manna - September 17]
Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27
EVERY true child of God must have a definite individual
Christian character which is not dependent
for its existence upon the spiritual life of any other
Christian.
He must from the Word of Truth, proclaimed
and exemplified by other Christians, draw
those principles of life, etc., which give him an established
character, a spiritual individuality of his
own.
So positive and definite should be the spiritual
individuality of every one, that, should even the beloved
brother or sister whose spiritual life first nourished
ours and brought us forward to completeness of
character fall away (which the apostle shows is not impossible—Hebrews 6:4-6; Galatians 1:8), we
would
still live,
being able to appropriate for ourselves the Spirit of
Truth. Z.'03-375 R3250:6