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my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.” Philippians
I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and Him alone.
Have you had your “white funeral,” or are you piously deceiving your own soul?
Spiritual exhaustion is never the result of sin, but of service.
Jesus said to Peter, “Feed My sheep,” but He gave him nothing with which to feed them (John 21:17).
Only occasionally is it a matter of obedience.
Yet most of our life is not spent in trying to be consciously obedient, but in maintaining this relationship—being the “friend of the bridegroom.”
Our natural inclination is to be so precise—trying always to forecast accurately what will happen next—that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life—gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God.
The spiritual life is the life of a child. We are not uncertain of God, just uncertain of what He is going to do next.
It is much easier to die than to lay down your life day in and day out with the sense of the high calling of God.
We are not made for the bright-shining moments of life, but we have to walk in the light of them in our everyday ways.
Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
The New Testament brings us right down to this one issue—if sin rules in me, God’s life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
What we see as only the process of reaching a particular end, God sees as the goal itself.
God is not working toward a particular finish—His purpose is the process itself.
Have no motivation other than to know your Father in heaven.
His own heredity of holiness into me, then I can begin to see what He means when He says that I have to be holy.
His teaching is meant to be applied to the life which He puts within us.
But we have not yet learned to get into God’s stride.
It is a holiness based on agonizing repentance, a sense of inexpressible shame and degradation, and also on the amazing realization that the love of God demonstrated itself to me while I cared nothing about Him (see Romans 5:8).
We have to be exceptional
in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people—and this is not learned in five minutes.
