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November 27, 2007
THE CONSECRATION OF SPIRITUAL ENERGY
By whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the
world.
Galatians 6:14
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=ga+6:14&sr=1
If I brood on the Cross of Christ, I do not become a subjective
pietist, interested in my own whiteness; I become dominantly
concentrated on Jesus Christ's interests. Our Lord was not a recluse
nor an ascetic, He did not cut Himself off from society, but He was
inwardly disconnected all the time. He was not aloof, but He lived in
an other world. He was so much in the ordinary world that the
religious people of His day called Him a glutton and a wine-bibber.
Our Lord never allowed anything to interfere with His consecration of
spiritual energy.
The counterfeit of consecration is the conscious cutting off of
things with the idea of storing spiritual power for use later on, but
that is a hopeless mistake. The Spirit of God has spoiled the sin of
a great many, yet there is no emancipation, no fullness in their
lives. The kind of religious life we see abroad to-day is entirely
different from the robust holiness of the life of Jesus Christ. "I
pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that
Thou shouldest keep them from the evil." We are to be in the world
but not of it; to he disconnected fundamentally, not externally.
We must never allow anything to interfere with the consecration of
our spiritual energy. Consecration is our part, sanctification is
God's part; and we have deliberately to determine to be interested
only in that in which God is interested. The way to solve perplexing
problems is to ask - Is this the kind of thing in which Jesus Christ
is interested, or the kind of thing in which the spirit that is the
antipodes of Jesus is interested?
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