…the Son of God, who
loved me and gave Himself for me. —Galatians 2:20
We should battle
through our moods, feelings, and emotions into absolute devotion to the Lord
Jesus. We must break out of our own little world of experience into abandoned
devotion to Him. Think who the New Testament says Jesus Christ is, and then
think of the despicable meagerness of the miserable faith we exhibit by saying,
“I haven’t had this experience or that experience”! Think what faith in Jesus
Christ claims and provides— He can present us faultless before the throne of
God, inexpressibly pure, absolutely righteous, and profoundly justified. Stand
in absolute adoring faith “in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption…” (1 Corinthians 1:30). How
dare we talk of making a sacrifice for the Son of God! We are saved from hell
and total destruction, and then we talk about making sacrifices!
We must continually
focus and firmly place our faith in Jesus Christ— not a “prayer meeting” Jesus
Christ, or a “book” Jesus Christ, but the New Testament Jesus Christ, who is
God Incarnate, and who ought to strike us dead at His feet. Our faith must be
in the One from whom our salvation springs. Jesus Christ wants our absolute,
unrestrained devotion to Himself. We can never experience Jesus Christ,
or selfishly bind Him in the confines of our own hearts. Our faith must be
built on strong determined confidence in Him.
It is because of our
trusting in experience that we see the steadfast impatience of the Holy Spirit
against unbelief. All of our fears are sinful, and we create our own fears by
refusing to nourish ourselves in our faith. How can anyone who is identified
with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or fear! Our lives should be an absolute
hymn of praise resulting from perfect, irrepressible, triumphant belief.
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