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July 9, 2008
THE GREAT PROBING
Ye cannot serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:19
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Have you the slightest reliance on anything other than God? Is there
a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of
circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any particular in this
new proposition which God has put before you? That is what the
probing means. It is quite true to say - "I cannot live a holy life,"
but you can decide to let Jesus Christ make you holy. "Ye cannot
serve the Lord God"; but you can put yourself in the place where
God's almighty power will come through you. Are you sufficiently
right with God to expect Him to manifest His wonderful life in you?
"Nay, but we will serve the Lord." It is not an impulse, but a
deliberate commitment. You say - But God can never have called me to
this, I am too unworthy, it can't mean me. It does mean you, and the
weaker and feebler you are, the better. The one who has something to
trust in is the last one to come anywhere near saying - "I will serve
the Lord."
We say - "If I really could believe!" The point is - If I really will
believe. No wonder Jesus Christ lays such emphasis on the sin of
unbelief. "And He did not many mighty works there because of their
unbelief." If we really believed that God meant what He said - what
should we be like! Dare I really let God be to me all that He says He
will be?
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