The point of reference

As long as our own humanity is our point of reference, we don't know we died and we can't know union. We can't know it. I didn't say we couldn't talk about it or quote Bible verses about it. I'm saying we can't have an experiential knowledge of our union. But when we experience the reality of our union with Christ, we are no longer a soul-based person, a person that sees ourselves as our point of reference. We have moved to another place altogether.— The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gospel has worn you out, page 73

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I've seen that many times; you talk about "Christ in you, the hope of glory" and people will chime in. But, if you watch their lives, it is pretty clear that they only know it as a theological construct.

Debbie (my wife of over 31 years!) likes to use the illustration of a tired person. If you are tired, do you have the right to be crabby? If you think so, then you are not living in Christ; is Christ too weak to keep you from being crabby? She uses other illustrations, too, but they all point to us as the point of reference instead of Christ as the point of reference.
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