February 9
Companions of the Way (Morning)I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one.
THE spirit of the Incarnate in us is not only our personal association, but our personal union with the Incarnate Christ. . . . He is more and more, as the Christian consummation is approached, the Spirit within ourselves of Righteousness and Truth, of Life and of Love. He is more, indeed, than within us. He is the ultimate consummation of ourselves. He is the response, from us, of goodness and love, to the goodness and love of God. He is, with quite unreserved truth, when all is consummated, our own personal response. . . . His presence in us is His response in us, become ultimately ourselves. He is Christ Himself in us, become the spirit which constitutes us what we are; and therefore, though in us,—though ultimately ourselves,—a response really worthy of God, really adequate to God; a mirror, an echo, nay even a living presentment and realisation of what Christ Himself is—who is the Eternal God.
R. C. MOBERLY
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT