In order to take Christ as everything and gain Him in all things, we must learn to continually deny our self and turn to our spirit.
We need to be one in soul to enjoy Christ by thinking the one thing, by being one with Christ in His inward parts, and by allowing God to operate in us the willing and the working for His good pleasure.
Like Paul, we should aspire to know and experience Christ, the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings and to be conformed to His death as the mold of the Christian life.
We need to be conformed to Christ's death so that we may attain to the out-resurrection—the only way for the Lord to go on in His recovery, the only way to build up His church, the only way for the bride to make herself ready, and the only way for the Lord to come back.