Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Oh, those subtle suggestions that are ever being
whispered in our ears, that if we give up this and that we are going to
lose, and life is going to be poorer, and we are going to be narrowed
down until we have nothing left.
It is a lie! That is the thing that is
countering God's great thought for us. God's thought for us is that One,
no less than His Son Jesus Christ, in Whom all the fullness of the
Godhead dwells in bodily form, should be our fullness.
All the fullness
of God in Christ for us! You never attain to that by rejecting Him.
Life
must be much less than it need be if you are not going all the way with
the Lord; and what obtains in the matter of our consecration to the
Lord, our entire and complete abandonment to Him in our life and our
complete cut with all that is not of the Lord, obtains in the realm of
service.
This flesh loves to sport itself in Christian work, and tells
us that if we are going to be dependent upon the Lord we are going to have an anxious time.
But a life of dependence upon God can be a life of
continual romance.
It is there that we make discoveries which are a
constant wonder.
You may be nearly dead one minute and in the next the
Lord gives you something to do and you are very much alive, dependent
upon Him for every breath you breathe.
But thus you come to know the
Lord. Then after that experience you are just as helpless and dead again
for a while, but you remember that the Lord did something. Then He does
it again; and so life becomes a romance; yet no one would ever guess
you were depending on the Lord for your very breath.
It is a very
blessed thing to know the Lord is doing it, when you could not do it at
all; it is, humanly, naturally, impossible, but the Lord is doing it!
~T. Austin Sparks~
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