성령 안에 있는 의와 평강과 희락(롬14:17)

THE PRICE OF VISION “In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord.” Isaiah 6:1 Our soul’s history with God is frequently the history of the “passing of the hero.” Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged. Take it personally: In the year that the one wh..

THE SPIRITUAL SOCIETY “Till we all come . . . unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.” Ephesians 4:13 Rehabilitation means the putting back of the whole human race into the relationship God designed it to be in, and this is what Jesus Christ did in Redemption. The Church ceases to be a spiritual society when it is on the lookout for the development of its..

THE SPIRITUAL SAINT That I may know Him. Philippians 3:10 The initiative of the saint is not towards self-realization, but towards knowing Jesus Christ. The spiritual saint never believes circumstances to be haphazard, or thinks of his life as secular and sacred; he sees everything he is dumped down in as the means of securing the knowledge of Jesus Christ. There is a reckless..

THE SPIRITUAL SLUGGARD “Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.” Hebrews 10:24-25 We are all capable of being spiritual sluggards; we do not want to mix with the rough and tumble of life as it is, our one object is to secure retirement. The note struck in Hebrews 10 is that of provoking one ano..

THE GREAT PROBING “Ye cannot serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:19 Have you the slightest reliance on anything other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any particular in this new proposition which God has put before you? That is what the probing means. It is quite true to say—“I cann..

THE WILL TO LOYALTY “Choose you this day whom ye will serve.” Joshua 24:15 Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God’s Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth it is never a question of what He will do, but of what we will do. The Lord has been putting before us all some big proposition..

ALL NOBLE THINGS ARE DIFFICULT “Enter ye in at the strait gate . . . : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way. . .” Matthew 7:13-14 If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to over..

VISION AND REALITY “And the parched ground shall become a pool.” Isaiah 35:7 We always have visions before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humi..

DON’T CALCULATE WITHOUT GOD “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.” Psalm 37: 5 Don’t calculate without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us..

ONE OF GOD’S GREAT DON’TS “Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil doing.” Psalm 37:8, RV Fretting means getting out at elbows mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say “‘Fret not,” but a very different thing to have such a disposition that you find yourself able not to fret. It sounds so easy to talk about “resting in the Lord” and “waiting patient..