(Life Immersed and Communion Made Known)
May 12 brings the believer into a quiet but profound reality: when the life becomes fully immersed in Christ, what once required conscious effort begins to flow naturally—and in that same relation, Christ makes himself known to his people.
1. Love That Has Lost Self-Awareness
Chambers writes:
“Love means that there is no visible habits—that your habits are so immersed in the Lord that you practice them without realizing it.” (My Utmost for His Highest)
Chambers directs attention beyond outward discipline.
At first, the life may be conscious of every effort—carefully attending to actions, responses, and habits. But love moves deeper than self-monitoring.
It immerses the life in the Lord himself.
And when that immersion becomes the governing reality, what once appeared as deliberate habit begins to flow without self-consciousness. The life no longer centers on maintaining spiritual behavior, because its source has changed.
The focus is no longer on the habits. It is on the relation.
And from that relation, the life expresses itself naturally.
This is not carelessness. It is absorption.
The life becomes so aligned with Christ that what proceeds outwardly no longer feels separate from who the life is becoming in him.
2. Christ Revealing Himself to His People
Spurgeon writes:
“Jesus gives special revelations of Himself to His people.”
(Morning and Evening)
Spurgeon speaks of communion.
Christ does not remain distant from the life that abides in him. He makes himself known—not merely through information, but through living disclosure within relationship.
These revelations are not spectacles for curiosity.
They are relational unveilings.
The life that remains near to him begins to know him more deeply—not only what he has done, but who he is. And as he reveals himself, the believer is drawn further from self-conscious striving into simple communion.
The more clearly he is seen, the less the life centers upon itself.
3. Where the Two Meet: Communion That Becomes Expression
These truths meet in a single movement.
As Christ reveals himself, the life becomes increasingly immersed in him. And as the life becomes immersed, what once required conscious spiritual management begins to express itself naturally.
Communion reshapes expression.
The life no longer labors to appear spiritual. It simply lives from its source.
One truth describes the unveiling of Christ. The other describes the effect of that unveiling upon the life.
The more fully he is known, the more freely his life is expressed.
4. Pastoral Orientation
May 12 calls for simplicity and nearness.
Do not become occupied with managing your outward habits. Remain immersed in the Lord himself.
Do not seek revelation as spectacle. Seek deeper communion with Christ.
As you continue walking “after the spirit,” you will find that the life becomes less self-conscious and more naturally expressive of Christ as communion deepens.
Remain near to him. Let the life flow from that nearness.
And you will discover a life that is no longer centered on itself, but quietly expresses the One in whom it abides.