"The whole of our consciousness is meant to be interpenetrated with the consciousness of His indwelling life and mind and will and love, even as the air in summer is transfused with sunshine."
J. SIDLOW BAXTER
quoted in Ministry in the image of God : the trinitarian shape of Christian service / by Seamands, Stephen A., 1949-
Sadu Sundar Singh of India often used the example of the iron a blacksmith places in a red-hot coal fire. Soon the iron turns red and begins to glow like the coals, so you can truly say that the iron is in the fire and the fire is in the iron. Yet we know that the iron is not the fire and the fire is not the iron. When the iron is glowing, the blacksmith can bend it into any shape he desires, but it still remains iron. Likewise, he emphasized, “we still retain our personality when we allow ourselves to be penetrated by Christ.”
Sadu Sundar Singh, quoted in Nick Harrison, ed., His Victorious Indwelling (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998), p. 108. Citation from Seamands, Ministry in the Image of God
