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October 23, 2007
NOT A BIT OF IT!
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old
things are passed away.
2 Corinthians 5:17
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=2co+5:17&sr=1
Our Lord never nurses our prejudices, He mortifies them, runs clean
athwart them. We imagine that God has a special interest in our
particular prejudices; we are quite sure that God will never deal
with us as He has to deal with other people. "God must deal with
other people in a very stern way, but of course He knows that my
prejudices are all right." We have to learn - "Not a bit of it!"
Instead of God being on the side of our prejudices, He is
deliberately wiping them out. It is part of our moral education to
have our prejudices run straight across by His providence, and to
watch how He does it. God pays no respect to anything we bring to
Him. There is only one thing God wants of us, and that is our
unconditional surrender.
When we are born again, the Holy Spirit begins to work His new
creation in us, and there will come a time when there is not a bit of
the old order left, the old solemnity goes, the old attitude to
things goes, and "all things are of God." How are we going to get the
life that has no lust, no self-interest, no sensitiveness to pokes,
the love that is not provoked, that thinketh no evil, that is always
kind? The only way is by allowing not a bit of the old life to be
left; but only simple perfect trust in God, such trust that we no
longer want God's blessings, but only want Himself. Have we come to
the place where God can withdraw His blessings and it does not affect
our trust in Him? When once we see God at work, we will never bother
our heads about things that happen, because we are actually trusting
in our Father in Heaven Whom the world cannot see.
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