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March 7 - March 16, 2022
Sometimes pride takes a doctrinal shape. It teaches the doctrine of self-sufficiency. It tells us what we can do, and will not admit that we are lost, fallen, debased, and ruined creatures, as we are. It hates divine sovereignty and condemns the doctrine of election. Then, if it is driven from that, it takes another form. It acknowledges that the doctrine of free grace is true, but does not feel it. It acknowledges that salvation is of the Lord alone, but still it urges people to seek heaven by their own works, even by the deeds of the law.
It will tell him that he does not need daily grace, but that past experience will suffice for tomorrow.
seek God that He would purify your heart from pride, and then assuredly, if pride is purged from your heart, your life also will be humble. Make the tree good, and the fruit will be good (Matthew 12:33). Make the fountain pure, and the stream will be sweet.
Rest assured that no confession of sin can be genuine unless it is a wholehearted one.
We should look upon our temptations as fires – oh, they are fires! If you think they are not fires, you are mistaken. If you enter, then, in your own strength, saying, “Oh, I could handle them,” you will find that they are real fires, which, with forked tongues, will lick up your blood and consume it in an instant if you have no better safeguard than your own human power.
There is a brother who has had wave upon wave of affliction. Everything goes against him. He is an upright, honest, industrious merchant, yet no matter what he does, his resources waste away like snow before the sun. It appears that for every ship of his, the wind blows the wrong way, and where others win in a business venture, he loses everything. Sees every day new straits attend, And wonders where the scene will end.[4] When I spoke of walking through the fire, he said, “Ah! That is what I have been doing. I have been walking through it these months. Only to God and my own soul alone is it
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get slothful, do not fight the Lord’s battles, and it will become not only easy for you to sin, but you will surely also become its victim.
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
Whatever your situation is, whatever your occupation, there is a continual sermon preached to your conscience. I wish that from now on you would open your eyes and ears and see and hear the things that God desires to teach you.
If he really prays, you do not need to be afraid of him. He who communes with God in secret can be trusted in public. I always feel safe with a man who is a visitor to the mercy seat.
Brother, when you rise in the morning, your business so urgent, that with a hurried word or two of prayer, out you go into the world; and at night, worn out and tired, you give God the meager leftovers of the day – the consequence is that you have no communion with Him. The reason we do not have more true Christianity among us now is because we do not have more secret prayer.
The soul is wider than creation and broader than space. Even if these people were given everything, they would still be unsatisfied and would not find rest.
It is easier to get a sinner out of his sin than a self-righteous person out of his self-righteousness.
They seek seminars, conferences, and emotional entertainment, but they do not want earnest prayer and convicting sermons.
The sin of sitting still while your brethren go forth to war breaks both tables of the law and has in it a huge idolatry of self, which neither allows love to God or to others. Horrible idleness! God save us from it!
People sit down and figure out what it will cost them to do right, weighing their conduct as a matter of profit and loss, and then they call such wicked calculations prudence. It is utter selfishness. Do what is right, even if it costs you your life.
