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June 12, 2009
GETTING THERE
Master, where dwellest Thou? . . Come and see.
John 1:39
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=joh+1:39&sr=1
"They abode with Him that day." That is about all some of us ever do,
then we wake up to actualities, self-interest arises and the abiding
is passed. There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in
Jesus.
"Thou art Simon, thou shalt be called Cephas." God writes the new
name on those places only in our lives where He has erased the pride
and self-sufficiency and self-interest. Some of us have the new name
in spots only, like spiritual measles. In sections we look all right.
When we have our best spiritual mood on, you would think we were very
high-toned saints; but don't look at us when we are not in that mood.
The disciple is one who has the new name written all over him;
self-interest and pride and self-sufficiency have been completely
erased.
Pride is the deification of self, and this to-day in some of us is
not of the order of the Pharisee, but of the publican. To say "Oh,
I'm no saint," is acceptable to human pride, but it is unconscious
blasphemy against God. It literally means that you defy God to make
you a saint, "I am much too weak and hopeless, I am outside the reach
of the Atonement." Humility before men may be unconscious blasphemy
before God. Why are you not a saint? It is either that you do not
want to be a saint, or that you do not believe God can make you one.
It would be all right, you say, if God saved you and took you
straight to heaven. That is just what He will do! "We will come unto
him, and make our abode with him." Make no conditions, let Jesus be
everything, and He will take you home with Him not only for a day,
but for ever.
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