To have Christ formed in us is to have Christ fully grown in us, to allow Christ to permeate our whole being and saturate our inward parts, to have Christ mingled with us, to be constituted with Christ, and to allow Christ to make His home in all the parts of our inner being.

The divine power, which includes all that the Triune God has passed through, has been installed into us once for all and is being transmitted into us continually, causing us to enjoy Christ richly and to have the proper church life as His Body, His fullness.

We need to take Christ as our living, take Christ as our expression, take the mind of Christ as our mind, take Christ as our lived-out righteousness, consider the knowledge of Christ excellent, take Christ as our goal, take Christ as our virtues, take Christ as our power, take Christ as our secret, and take Christ as our expectation.

The Christ revealed in Colossians is the all-inclusive, extensive Christ, the centrality and universality of God’s economy, who should replace every factor, element, and aspect of our natural life and of our culture with Himself for the new man.