We Live the Grafted Life in the Mingling of the Human Life with the Divine Life

As believers in Christ, we live the grafted life by living in the mingling of the human life with the divine life. Hallelujah, we are organically united with Christ so that we may live a grafted life – a life in the mingling of God and man!

As believers in Christ, we have been grafted into Christ, and the grafted life we live today is not an exchanged life but the mingling of the human life with the divine life, for the Lord is dispensing Himself into us and infusing us with Himself to mingle Himself with us for us to live a mingled life, a mingling life, a grafted life. Wow, amen!

Our Christian life is an organic life, not a performance or a deliberate life. We don’t perform our Christian life nor do we put on a mask when we’re with others in order for them to see a particular behavior in us when we’re around them.

Rather, just as our human life is not a performance but a spontaneous living, an expression of our person through all that we do and say, so our Christian life is an expression of Christ living in us.

By repenting and believing into the Lord Jesus, we were grafted into Christ; we were cut from our old man, our old way of living, and our old source, and we were attached to Christ.

We are now joined to the Lord as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). This means that where we go, that’s where He goes, and what we speak, He is in us.

The source of our daily living, the source of our life, and the source of our strength is now Christ.

However, so many times we still live out our old man, expressing ourselves, and living not one spirit with the Lord.

When we do this, even though we have Christ within us, we do not live a grafted life, and Christ is not expressed in us. Oh, Lord Jesus!

May we realize that we have been grafted into Christ, joined with Him in one spirit, and now we need to live a grafted life simply by abiding in the Lord!

We abide in the Lord by exercising our spirit and by doing all things in our spirit.

We are in Christ, Christ is in us, and we live in Christ and Christ lives in us.

We have one life and one living with the Lord.

What He does, we are also doing, and what He speaks, we are also speaking.

This should be the reality of our Christian life.

We don’t think and consider, What would Jesus do in this moment? What does He want me to say right now?

Rather, we contact the Lord, we remain in the organic union with the Lord, and we fight to remain connected to Him so that He in us, we in Him, would have the same life and the same living.

Even though there are so many things in our daily life and around us that try to distract us from Christ and separate us from Him, we need to remain in one spirit with the Lord in all things, no matter what happens.

The Grafted Life is not an Exchanged Life but the Mingling of the Human Life with the Divine Life

The concept of the exchanged life is that, seeing that our human life is so poor and so short in fulfilling God’s purpose, we yield it to the Lord, and He replaces it with His divine life.

Such a concept is quite natural and it appeals to our natural man, who many times is weak in fulfilling God’s purpose but strong in doing his own will.

However, we believers in Christ need to realize that, as those grafted into Christ who live a grafted life, we don’t have an exchanged life but the mingling of the human life with the divine life.

We don’t give God our human life, giving it up completely, and then He comes and replaces us with His life, as if we are robots throwing our mind, emotion, and will away because now God does everything in us.

Rather, the Christian life is a grafted life, not an exchanged life; the Christian life is the mingling of the human life with the divine life (Rom. 6:3-5; John 15:1, 4-5).

God doesn’t come in to replace us and then we’re out of it while He’s doing everything in us without our consent or realization; rather, He comes in and mingles Himself with us.

God doesn’t want to gain “robots” or people who just do what He wants them to do; He wants to come in and mingle Himself with them, be one with them and make them one with Him so that together they would be mingled and joined to the extent that God and man, man and God, have one life and one living.

This is what God’s economy is about; in His economy, God wants to mingle Himself with man so that God and man would be fully one.

Praise the Lord, our Christian life is not an exchanged life but a grafted life!

Though we may think it is better for God to just come and take our life and give His life to us, replacing us completely, this is not what God is after.

He wants to dispense Himself into us. He is working Himself into us.

Christ makes His home in our hearts through faith (Eph. 3:16-17), and we are being conformed to the image of Christ (Rom. 8:28-29) so that Christ may be formed in us (Gal. 4:19).

Christ has become our very life. There’s no exchange of lives; there’s no trading of our life with His.

Instead of exchange, there is the dispensing, the infusing of the divine life into the human life and the mingling of the human life with the divine life.

This is the crucial point: God is dispensing Himself into us to infuse all that He is into us.

The focus is God’s dispensing; we have been grafted into the Triune God, and He is constantly dispensing all that He is into us.

This is God’s economy, His heart’s desire, and His unique way today.

And this is so applicable and real to us in our daily life. In our daily life, we need to realize that we are one spirit with the Lord and, no matter what happens to us, we need to remain open to His divine dispensing so that He may mingle Himself with us a little more.

We are joined to Christ in an organic union; all the Lord wants to do is to add Himself to us, infuse us with Himself, and dispense what He is into our being.

May we enjoy our sweet and wonderful organic union with the Lord and remain under God’s dispensing day by day.

Our human life is not cast aside; our human life is mingled with the divine life so that the divine life may be expressed through the human life.

Because Christ went through death and resurrection, now His life can be ours.

He can come in to be our life, uplifting our human virtues and strengthening our entire inward being for us to express Him and live Him out.

In the organic union with the Lord, we have His life, His victory, His power, His light, and all the wonderful divine attributes.

We simply need to remain in the organic union with the Lord and He will mingle Himself with us, making us one with Him so that He may be expressed through us day by day.

Lord Jesus, we praise You that we do not have an exchanged life but the mingling of the human life with the divine life! Hallelujah, we don’t need to yield our human life to the Lord so that He can replace it with His divine life, but we can receive the divine dispensing! Amen, Lord, we want to remain open to Your divine dispensing today. Mingle Yourself with us more today. Dispense all that You are into us. We just want to be open to You. We open to Your infusing all that You are into us. Saturate us with Yourself. We open to absorb all Your riches as we spend time with You in Your word. Lord, keep us open to Your divine dispensing throughout the day. May You have a way to mingle Your divine life with our human life today. Save us from having the concept of an exchanged life and bring us in the daily experience of the divine dispensing so that we may be mingled more with God! We want to live a life in the mingling of God and man today!

We Believers in Christ are Organically United with Christ to Live a Grafted Life

The most wonderful reality in the Christian experience is that we believers in Christ are united with Christ in the way of life (1 Cor. 6:17).

We were created in God’s image and according to His likeness (Gen. 1:26) but, due to Adam’s fall, our life became the natural life in the old creation.

First, there is sin and then there’s death (Rom. 5-7). Through one man, Adam, sin entered into the world, and through sin, death (5:12).

Sin reigned through death (v. 21; 6:12), and death reigned over us through the offense of the one, Adam (5:17, 14).

In Adam we didn’t reign in life neither are we joined to the Lord; rather, we are under the ruling of sin and death.

But praise the Lord, the last Adam came and died an all-inclusive death on the cross.

Through His death, He brought everything of the Adamic life to the cross and had a great ending there (6:6).

By repentance and faith in Christ, we are joined to Christ and united with Him in the way of life, and we reign with Him, allowing His life to reign in us.

No longer does sin and death reign in us; rather, grace and life reign in us (5:21).

Our natural life with our natural man has been put to death with Adam in our co-death with Christ.

We testify of this in our baptism, where we are buried with Christ into His death and thereby our natural life and our old man in Adam are annihilated (6:3-4).

Now we live and walk in newness of life, for we are joined to the Lord as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).

Whatever Christ is and whatever He has done are altogether for one thing: that He and we could be organically united and live a grafted life (John 15:4-5).

Regardless of our condition, our history, our problems, and our weaknesses, we can be organically united and live a grafted life with the Lord. What a mercy!

The most wonderful reality in our Christian life is that we can be joined to the Lord as one spirit – we are united with Christ in the way of life, and now we live a grafted life to reign in life with Christ!

Today the Lord is recovering this matter that has been neglected for such a long time – the grafted life.

We may think we understand what it means to be grafted into Christ, and we may apprehend the concept of grafting and being joined to the Lord.

But what about our daily living? Do we live one spirit with the Lord today?

Do we live the grafted life, a life in the mingling of the human life with the divine life?

Many times the Lord shines on us, as we make mistakes and have many failures, that we still do not live according to what we know and see.

We may have health issues, we may have problems at our job, and we may have some family issues also, and we may pray desperately for the Lord to fix this, change that situation, and help that person see the truth so that they don’t give us a hard time.

What the Lord wants, however, is not to rescue us out of our problems, trials, and sufferings, but so that He would mingle Himself with us more through all these things.

In His dictionary, there is one main word, Christ, and there’s another word, stripping.

On the positive side, He wants to work Christ into us; on the negative side, He wants to strip our outer man and cause it to be consumed.

What God cares for us that He would mingle Himself with us more today, and for this He works to consume our outer man, strip us, and cause us to be open to Him.

We have so many things we’re attached to; we have many things we treasure, love, and spend time with, and the Lord is not real to us when we do this (2 Cor. 4:16-18).

So He is faithful to take things away from us, strip us of our attainments, accomplishments, and even good virtues and things, so that nothing replaces Christ.

Under God’s sovereign hand, many things and situations that bring us joy and comfort are being shaken and taken away so that Christ would be the One who is our joy, our comfort, and our happiness.

He wants to be everything to us, and we are joined with Him organically.

Though we are joined to the Lord in spirit, we still seek other things, desire other matters, and want to be joined to other people and things.

So the Lord needs to take us through a process to remove things and matters from us, even to strip us so that we may just come to Him as we are and open our whole being to Him.

We may be upset with the Lord about this or that thing happening to us, so we open to Him from the depths of our being; in this way, He has a way to mingle our human life with His divine life so that we may live a grafted life.

Thank the Lord for showing us that all things work together for the good of those who love God.

Our Christian life is primarily a matter of our organic union with the Triune God.

Lord Jesus, unveil us to see the most wonderful reality in the Christian experience – that we are united with Christ in the way of life. May we realize that our Christian life is primarily a matter of our organic union with the Triune God. We open to You, Lord. Cause us to open to You a little more today so that You may mingle Yourself with us. Hallelujah, whatever Christ is and whatever He has done are altogether so that He and we can be organically united to live a grafted life! Wow, amen, Lord, thank You for doing everything and being everything to us so that we may be organically united with You and live a grafted life! May we see this, may we be reminded of this, and may we remain in the organic union with the Lord. Amen, Lord, may we just learn to open to You in all situations. Thank You for Your faithfulness in removing anything that we rely on apart from You so that You may be our unique source and everything to us. Remove the matter of living the grafted life today in us and among us!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ray Mulligan in the message for this week, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Experience of God’s Organic Salvation Equaling Reigning in Christ’s Life,” pp. 492-494, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Christian Life (2024 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 2, The Grafted Life.
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• Hymns on this topic:
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  – Lord, we would our every thought be captured / By the rich enjoyment in Your Word. / In it we’re supplied, our mind there will abide, / Till our thoughts are wholly sanctified. / Let’s keep practicing the application / Of this life by minding just the Son. / Praise Him for the way to live by Him today! / Lord, on You our minds will ever stay. (Hymns #1193 stanzas 6-7)