died for
us, and reigns for us, and in us. Our Paul may be far away in some
distant Rome, and we may sorely miss him. But we have at hand Jesus
Christ, who "took Bondservant's Form," and obeyed even unto death for
us, and who is on the eternal throne for us, and who lives within us by
His Spirit. Looking upon Him in the glory of His Person and His Work,
we are not only to wonder, not only even to worship; we are to work; to
"work out" our spiritual blessings[7] into a life which shall be full
of Him, and in which we shall indeed be "saved" ourselves, and help
others around us to their salvation. In the "fear and trembling" of
those who feel the blissful awfulness of an eternal Presence, we are to
set ourselves, with the inexhaustible diligence of hope, to the
business of the spiritual life. We are to bring all the treasures of a
manifested and possessed Redeemer to bear upon the passing hour, and to
let Him be seen in us, "Christ our Life," always formative and
empowering.

ii. We have here in particular that deep secret of the Gospel,
unspeakably precious to the soul which indeed longs to be holy--the
Indwelling of God in the believer. It here appears in close and
significant connexion with the revelation of the love and work of the
Incarnate and Atoning Lord; as if to remind us without more words that
He who gave Himself for us did so not only to release us (blessed be
His Name) from an infinite peril, from the eternal prison and death of
a violated law, but yet more that He might bring His rescued ones into
an unspeakable nearness in Him to God. His was no _mere_ compassion,
which could set a guilty captive free. It was eternal love, which
could not be content without nearness to its object, without union with
it, without a dwelling in the very heart by faith. As if it was a
matter of course in the plan of God, St Paul passes from the Cross and
the Glory of Jesus to the Indwelling of God in the Christian, and to
all the rest and all the power which that Indwelling is to bring.

"It is God who is working in you, effecting alike your willing and your
working; for the sake of His good pleasure." These are words of deep
mystery. They contain matter which has exercised the closest thought
of some of the greatest thinkers of the Church. _Operatur in nobis
velle_; "He worketh in us to will." How is this to be reconciled with
the reality, and in that sense the freedom, of the human will? What
relation does i