Growing Into Christ - Introduction
by Jan Tauler

"Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Him who is the Head that is, Christ. "- Ephesians 4:15

Obtaining True Knowledge Of Christ

When it is said that man comes to the knowledge of the faith, this is nothing else than that the fruit of the faith springs up in us through grace and reveals to us and gives us the knowledge, in a clear manner, that Christ is both God and man. Of this Paul spoke, saying, "I know Christ only." This was because Christ revealed Himself to him in the fruitfulness of his works, and He killed all besides that was not Christ, and therefore Christ alone remained known to him.

Now we obtain a knowledge of Christ by following the image and the works of Christ. For in the degree to which you follow Christ are you like Him, and to the extent that you are like Him do you know Him. For everything is known by its like, and he who is most like God knows God the most.

Now God is a pure Being, and such must the man be who is to know God - pure and stripped of everything else. The purity and nakedness issue from the image of our Lord. Therefore he who likens himself most to the image of our Lord is the purest and knows God the best.

In this way then, man is prepared in the image of our Lord for a totally dependent life in which he sees God in all clarity.



From the "Light for Life" - a bi-monthly publication of Searchlight P.O. Box 5206 Newark NG23 6YL England

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