Word Devotional:Vicarious

Vicarious: experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another

I read todays devotional in My Utmost for His Highest ,The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers; Selections for Everyday the 1935 version.

The last paragraph said:

“The vicarious life of your Lord is to become your vital simple life; the way He worked and lived among men must be the way He lives in you.”

The question asked here is if my relationship with Christ is one where I am having communion ( the act or instance of sharing) with him constantly? Like a child, simply talking and sharing with Him all day long?

If I am wondering why I am going through the things that I am, and I am, I must realize a few things. The devotional says:

” It is not that you (I) have to go through them, it is because of the relation into which the Son of God has come in His Father’s providence in your (my) particular sainthood. Let Him have His way, keep in perfect union with Him.”

My life is moving forward, in spite of my not understanding things, because I made a decision to live according to God’s will for my life. The Trinity has come closer, risen to the surface of me, and these things must be  dealt with. My life is to be lived vicariously through the Christ. In union and communion with Him.

For that to occur parts of me and my current personality must fall away to allow for these communions.

Ok, I think I can dig it! I haven’t died from the occurances of my life. I will apparently survive, at least for today.

The Vicarious life of my Lord will become my vital, simple life today.

Blessings

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