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October 21, 2007
DIRECTION BY IMPULSE
Building up yourselves on your most holy faith.
Jude 20
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=jude+20&sr=1
There was nothing either of the nature of impulse or of
cold-bloodedness about Our Lord, but only a calm strength that never
got into panic. Most of us develop our Christianity along the line of
our temperament, not along the line of God. Impulse is a trait in
natural life, but Our Lord always ignores it, because it hinders the
development of the life of a disciple. Watch how the Spirit of God
checks impulse, His checks bring a rush of self-conscious foolishness
which makes us instantly want to vindicate ourselves. Impulse is all
right in a child, but it is disastrous in a man or woman; an
impulsive man is always a petted man. Impulse has to be trained into
intuition by discipline.
Discipleship is built entirely on the supernatural grace of God.
Walking on the water is easy to impulsive pluck, but walking on dry
land as a disciple of Jesus Christ is a different thing. Peter walked
on the water to go to Jesus, but he followed Him afar off on the
land. We do not need the grace of God to stand crises, human nature
and pride are sufficient, we can face the strain magnificently; but
it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four
hours in every day as a saint, to go through drudgery as a disciple,
to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple of
Jesus. It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for
God; but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary
things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is
not learned in five minutes.
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