Churchwork
02-12-2006, 02:45 AM
Absolute People
The spiritual life all believers possess is very rich indeed, but we are ignorant of just how rich this life actually is. Only at the time when our natural shell is being broken do we realize how rich the life of the Lord is: how it enables us to do the impossible!
But if this body of ours has never been wounded even once, how much it can endure cannot be proven or determined. Now the riches of the Lord’s life are beyond our comprehension. For this reason, therefore, no one should be grieved because of trial, since trials not only test our faith but enable us to manifest the life of the Lord. All which God has arranged for us to pass through is profitable to us in causing us to know Him. Only the tested know God, and only in knowing God can anyone serve Him.
Today we should commit ourselves wholly to the Lord’s hand that He may do the necessary work in us. Unless we are so committed, He can do nothing.
Today unless we lay our all on the altar, there is no spiritual way ahead for us. How can we forge ahead if we worry about this, fear that, or are so careful and so concerned lest we be too drastic? We must be willing to pay the cost. Let us be thorough and absolute in being Christian.
Today we are in the last days. We need to be violent with ourselves in the spirit of Matthew 11.12, or else there is no spiritual future. The halfhearted and double-minded cannot forge ahead. May there be absolute people among us who can provide the Lord with a highway on which to move forward.
The spiritual life all believers possess is very rich indeed, but we are ignorant of just how rich this life actually is. Only at the time when our natural shell is being broken do we realize how rich the life of the Lord is: how it enables us to do the impossible!
But if this body of ours has never been wounded even once, how much it can endure cannot be proven or determined. Now the riches of the Lord’s life are beyond our comprehension. For this reason, therefore, no one should be grieved because of trial, since trials not only test our faith but enable us to manifest the life of the Lord. All which God has arranged for us to pass through is profitable to us in causing us to know Him. Only the tested know God, and only in knowing God can anyone serve Him.
Today we should commit ourselves wholly to the Lord’s hand that He may do the necessary work in us. Unless we are so committed, He can do nothing.
Today unless we lay our all on the altar, there is no spiritual way ahead for us. How can we forge ahead if we worry about this, fear that, or are so careful and so concerned lest we be too drastic? We must be willing to pay the cost. Let us be thorough and absolute in being Christian.
Today we are in the last days. We need to be violent with ourselves in the spirit of Matthew 11.12, or else there is no spiritual future. The halfhearted and double-minded cannot forge ahead. May there be absolute people among us who can provide the Lord with a highway on which to move forward.