analysis faith is surrender to the One in whom this trust has been placed. It can be illustrated by our human relationships with one another. I f one has faith in the ability of an attorney and has legal matters that need car ing for, he puts the entire situation in the hands of the man who knows the law. If one has faith in a bank, he turns his money over to them for safe keeping. Thus, one gains the wisdom and skill of those trained as special ists. Faith brings the skill of other people into the solution of our prob lems. So it is that when we turn things over to our wonderful Saviour, His ability becomes our ability. His strength and saving grace are har nessed for our needs. When we come to Jesus Christ and rely wholly upon Him we come under His guardianship and power. In order to learn the secret of what it means to be a Christian from Gala tians 2:20, we must remember that it is Christ instead of us; it is faith in stead of feeling. Paul points out that it is “the life which I now live.” I t is not something of anticipation, but realization. Two great and glorious facts are embodied in this tremendous statement. First, Christ is living now. He is wonderfully, gloriously and vic toriously alive. He is not back in Jo- Dr. Ralpn L. Keiper (left), associate editor ol ETERNITY magazine and members of the staff of the Evangelical Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, leeks ever seme of the displays in the office of Dr. Lloyd T. Andersen, radio Bible teacher.
made a discovery you and I must make sooner or later. May we say with the Apostle Paul, “I am crucified with Christ: never theless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.”
CHRISTIAN LIVING SERIES
Life's Secret
A nother one of the secrets of the Christian found in Galatians 2 :20 is that we must live by faith instead of feeling, “. . . the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.” Faith is the indis- pensible requirement for receiving Christ into our lives and permitting Him to live in and through us. How does one know that Jesus Christ is living within? Certainly it is not by any feelings but rather by faith in the Word of God. Christ’s indwelling pres ence is the basic facet and tenet of every Christian life. Happy moods and joyous feelings, or even the absence of these moods, in no way alters the fact of faith. Christ does not live within us because we feel like it, but because, on the authority of God’s Word, we claim this fact by faith. Having begun the Christian life by receiving the Lord Jesus Christ through faith, we continue to live on the basis of the same principle. What does it mean to live by faith? I f we are not letting Christ fulfill His pur pose in us, we are not living by faith. -There is perhaps no word in the New Testament so watered down and so frequently misunderstood th an is “faith.” In the popular mind it means mere intellectual assent to the facts of the Bible. This definition falls far short of the New Testament teaching on the word. Faith is submission to God. I t is the wholehearted surrender of life. Faith is the movement of the entire individual towards Christ and the resting of our finite selves upon His own infinite personality. In the last
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