TCR 110 - conjunction with the Lord

TCR 110 [5-6]

To prepare oneself to receive and be conjoined to God
is to live in accordance with Divine order,
and the laws of order are all the commandments of God.
The Lord fulfilled these down to the last comma,
and so made Himself a receiver of the Divinity
in all its fulness.
Therefore Paul says that in Jesus Christ
all the fulness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
and the Lord says that all things of the Father's are His.

It is further to be held
that the Lord alone is active in a person,
and the person by himself is only passive,
but he is moved to activity
by the influx of life from the Lord.
This perpetual influx from the Lord
makes it appear to a person that he acts of himself.
Because this is so, he also has free will,
and this is given to him
in order to prepare himself
to receive and be conjoined to the Lord,
a state which would be impossible
if the conjunction were not reciprocal.
This is accomplished
when a person acts of his own free will,
yet is led by faith to attribute all activity to the Lord.