Francis Frangipane

Up until the moment Christ enters our lives, surrounding our souls there exists a hard outer shell, a “survival nature,” which protects us against life’s harshest offences. The shell is necessary while we are in the world, but becomes an enemy to our new life in Christ, where the nature of Christ becomes our shelter. Thus, as the shell of a seed, a nut or an egg must be broke before its inner life comes forth, so it is with us: the “shell” of our outer nature must also break in order to free the Spirit of Christ to arise in our hearts.