The 2nd of two excerpts from "The Law of Faith" by Norman Grubb:
We are summoned to step right off the level of the visible, the natural, carnal, and take the giant leap into the invisible. Witnesses are piled on us to press us into it. The inward light. The outward Scriptures. The historic fact of Christ. The miracle of changed lives.
Very well, at last we do it. We state to ourselves that we have begun life on a new level of reality – in Christ. We pronounce the new realities to be the new facts of our every-day life. We are dead to sin and alive to God in Christ. We are crucified with Him and He is living in us. We have His love, His wisdom, His power. We are in a mystical union with the Godhead. We are in a new timeless, spaceless realm; a fourth dimension, where, in the spirit, we reach everywhere, possess all things, and touch all lives or supply all needs by the law of this invisible kingdom, the law of Faith. And in the magnificence, wonder and glory of this new and full livingness, like Paul, we lose our hold on all the paltriness and trivialities which were once the sum of all life to us, our little bit of earthly dignity, position and reputation, our miserable scraps of earthly possessions, our little world of friends and relatives, even our tenacious hold on our minute particle of physical life. All these rivulets of the good things of existence are now merged and submerged in the endless sea of ALL in Christ…not lost…merely absorbed, as the light of the night lamp in the morning glory of the sun. How can we grasp tight and cling to our petty dignities, our few bits of things, our tiny circle of loved ones, when hands and hearts are brim full with the wealth of the universe, the honor of the divine sonship, the whole family in Heaven and earth, and we are busied in praising, blessing and dispensing, in place of coveting, grabbing, and keeping? (p. 62,63)
