LIVING WATERS
For the proclamation of the Gospel and the edification of the Body of Christ
Living by Christ and for Christ
“And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again” (2 Corinthians 5:15).
In the place of self the believer gets the Son of God. Christ fills us, occupies us, engrosses us henceforth. He is all to us what self was before. He takes the place of self in everything from first to last, great or small. He is the substitute for self in the matter of our standing before God.
As the first thing the Holy Spirit does is to set aside self in the matter of justification and acceptance, so His next is to present to us the Son of God as the true ground of our acceptance. We no longer seek to be justified by self in any sense or on account of anything done to self, on account of amended self or improved self or mortified self, but solely on account of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us and Who rose again.
And in this Son of God, Whom we take as a substitute for self, we find an object worth living for, someone we can through every part of our life and into every region of our life. (Horatius Bonar).