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Personal Life: Let God Alone
But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.—James 1:4
God is saying, “I stand ready to pour a little liquid fire into your heart, into your spiritual being!”
We respond: “No, Lord, please excuse me. That sounds like fanaticism—and I would have to give up some things!” So we refuse His desire, even though we want all the benefits of His cross.
There is this thoughtful phrase in The Cloud of Unknowing: “He wills thou do but look on Him and let Him alone.” Let God alone. In other words, let Him work! Don’t stop Him. Don’t prevent Him from kindling your heart, from blessing you and leading you out of a common state into that of special longing after Him. You don’t have to coax God. He is not like a reluctant father waiting for his child to beg. The blessings are His to give and He waits for us to let Him work….
“Look on Him and let Him work, let Him alone.” Get your hands down to your side and stop trying to tell God where to cut. Stop trying to make the diagnosis for God. Stop trying to tell God what to give you. He is the Physician! You are the patient….
Let Him work and your spiritual life will begin to blaze like the rising sun. I Talk Back to the Devil, 63-64.
“Lord, I know there is a work You want to do in my life today. I’ll try to stay out of the way, take my hands off, and let You work! I’ll put my hands to my side even now as a sign that I’m going to let You alone today to do Your work in me. Amen.” via Bible Gateway
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Have you ever had a troubling moment when you felt the presence of evil as a living supernatural, yet unseen, being? At such times your fears may be real or imaginary but evil exists and there are devils or demons under the command of a “being” named Lucifer in the spiritual world that surrounds us. Often, however, we give the Devil more attention than is due him. Richard Baxter reminds us of this by providing Christians with advice concerning th … Read More
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Have you ever had a troubling moment when you felt the presence of evil as a living supernatural, yet unseen, being? At such times your fears may be real or imaginary but evil exists and there are devils or demons under the command of a “being” named Lucifer in the spiritual world that surrounds us. Often, however, we give the Devil more attention than is due him. Richard Baxter reminds us of this by providing Christians with advice concerning th … Read More
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Too often lately we are finding churches that are taking God and the Devil out of the church itself. They are turning faith into a get rich plan. If you give them your money, then God will reward you. But the ones that get rich are often the con men that are running the scam.
I am not saying that there are not a lot of really good churches out there that are big and prosperous, there are. But if that is all they are teaching, they are not teaching God.
Screwtape talks about shopping churches and trying to find those that fit and it is true in our abundance of churches that you have a wide variety to choose from. The trouble is that some people are not really searching for God, they are looking for something that makes them feel good.
They don’t want to live the life that God wants them to, they want the Church to tell them that the life they are living is just fine with God.
The time for choosing is quickly fading away and we cannot be fence straddlers. Our choice will decide our future and if we choose poorly, we lose. Be certain when you shop for a church, that what they are offering is truly God.
Quoting Senior Demon Screwtape in a letter to his nephew Wormwood: Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighborhood looking for the church that “suits” him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches. The reasons are obvious. In the first place the parochial organization [neighborhood ch … Read More
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