When God tells us to live as though we had died, gone to heaven, seen the truth there, and come back to this world, He is not asking us merely to act on some psychological motivation, but on what really is...Thus I am to live now by faith, rooted in the things which have been, such as Christ's death and resurrection; what is, such as second stream of reality in the unseen now; and what will be, such as my bodily resurrection and return with Christ...It is not just a case of accepting, there is to be an activeness in our passivity. We are to be creatures because that is what we are - creatures. But in Christ we are presented with an opportunity, a calling, to be a creature by choice, to be creatures glorified.
True Spirituality, p47
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