Metabolized

Metabolism
Metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that occur in living organisms in order to maintain life. These processes allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments.

1 Cor. 9:27
“But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”

This could sound legal (religious) to many and probably has.

Paul says, “The love of God constraineth us…” , “revelation of Christ in him” , “life he lives is by the faith of the Son of God.”

My conclusion is the revelation has apprehended and passively arrested him.

The revelation of Christ took and arrested Paul into the kingdom of the Father’s agapeo’d Son (Col. 1:13) almost without Paul’s knowing it. Paul grew and became more conscious and fully aware of this apprehension.

The ‘knowledge’ of this apprehension or ‘apprehension’ of this knowledge consumed, absorbed, and metabolized Paul.

In this supernatural, spiritual, metabolic process Paul’s will becomes Christ’s will which is really Paul’s will.

Paul was who he was by the grace of God which is really who he was. This identity of ‘who he was by grace’ included his will.

Essentially, Paul was IN Christ and Christ was IN Paul and because of this Paul has an overwhelming, engulfing, overflowing desire towards godliness (Tit. 2:11).

This engulfing desire enabled him by the faith of Christ through His grace to willfully keep his body under subjection. This ‘willfulness’ is the good, perfect, pleasing will of Christ in Him. It was Christ in him.

Passive: -adjective
1. receiving, enduring, or submitting without resistance: a passive hypnotic subject.

Apprehend: v. tr.
1. To take into custody; arrest: apprehended the murderer.
2. To grasp mentally; understand: a candidate who apprehends the significance of geopolitical issues.
3. To become conscious of, as through the emotions or senses; perceive.