One Person and One Way

In God’s economy

The Lord is all there is

One Person with one way

in all

The God-man living His.

God does not give us things—

He only gives us Christ.

God’s gift

the Lord and Head of all

In all things does suffice.

There’s only room for Christ

The One who’s all in all.

In Him

the natural man is null

And has no place at all.

In Christ

there is no Jew

No Greek

no slave

no free

Barbarians and Scythians—

Crossed out entirely.

All differences we see

In culture

practice

creed

Are not in Christ

our Lord and Head—

From oldness these proceed.

Distinctions have no place

In Christ

nor in the saints.

Our nature is the very same

As oneness demonstrates.

God governs and He deals

With all things by the cross.

It’s God’s unique solution for

The substitutes in us.

The cross becomes our way

To put off all things old

To live in resurrection till

Christ in us all behold.

Put on the one new man

The old man strip away.

Pass through the cross to take Christ as

Our Person now today.

The Spirit with the cross

Is our unique supply

That causes us to be renewed

As one new man thereby.

The practicality

Of passing through the cross

Is in the mingling that blends

God’s essence into us.

The key is be renewed!

We have the mind of Christ!

The newness of God’s life

imbued

Renews and rectifies.

Put off the old today

And every day beyond.

But set your mind on spirit now

And to God’s life respond.

Enjoy the Lord and drink

The Spirit till you’re new

To think the one thing with all saints

With God soaked through and through.

Christ is the One we love

The One whom we pursue.

There’s nothing else that we desire

But Christ

who’s ever new.

God sees us all in Christ

The status we convey;

Christ and His cross are all we have—

One Person and one way.