the cuppboard

“This is what it means to be God’s creature—not to be a self-made, self-standing individual over against God, but to exist from God and through God. We are creatures precisely in that we live in God and God lives in us. We are sinful creatures when we fail to recognize this and live as if we were self-made, self-standing individuals. Being a new creature, redeemed from sin, is in this regard similar to being a creature as God originally created us to be. It’s to live in Christ and to have Christ live in us. United with Christ, we live in God and God lives in us.”