To Be In Christ

To be "in Christ," Paul told the Philipians, means to have in you the mind of Christ Jesus, to think as Christ thought, to have the ideals Christ had, to throb with the desires that filled Christ's heart, to replace all your natural actions to persons, events and circumstances with the response of Jesus Christ. In a word, a christocentirc life means to live in the heart of Jesus, to share His tastes and aversions, to have the same insterests, affections and attitudes, to be motivated in everything by His loving compassion. It means making the habitual thought patterns of Jesus Christ so completely your own that truly, "I no longer live, but Christ lives in me."

The Relentless Tenderness Of Jesus, Brennan Manning