Dwells in the Believer's Heart

Then in describing the experience of a soul led by the Spirit of Christ and what should be the mark of it, God says His love was so displayed in that work of His Son that it dwells in the hearts of believers, and they in it. If God uses your sin to show the virtue of His Son's blood, are you to say, "My leanness, my leanness"? How did you come to be calculating on anything of yourself? If you bring an empty vessel, even if there be a crack or flaw in it, you can keep it full to overflowing if you put it into a cistern of water.
The proper expression of God's will has come out, the deepest, highest, brightest, fullest, most blessed counsels of God getting their expression in Him who said, "Lo, I come to do Thy will." Who was that Babe there laid in a manger? What could it mean when those angels said, "Glory to God in the highest"? Ah! God said, Your ways are not My ways, nor your thoughts My thoughts. I shall bring out of My own bosom One who was there before all worlds, and thus will come out to light through that Son of My love. What I am-My character-will be seen, and He will declare what I am. I can let the brightest expression of heaven's delight shine out upon something on earth now.
God could look down on that Babe and see there the perfect expression of His glory. All God's glories came out in connection with that Person who said, "No man knoweth the Son, but the Father." And again, "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.”
Looking to be manifested at Christ's judgment-seat, we have no cause to have any uncertainty as to results. Why? Because, "as He is, so are we in this world." I can say this: "If Christ has taken the place of the smitten Rock and has become my life, will He find fault with His own life in me?" He will find fault with our practical inconsistencies, but the life of a believer is what Christ is. Not only have we life in Him, but He is the propitiation for our sins. He did the whole will of God, and He was made sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. We can take our place in God's presence and our confidence cannot be shaken if the heart is simple and true, because there is the blood that cleanses from all sin, and we take our place there as those who are cleansed.