Posted on 04/05/2005 8:31:44 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day
I was reviewing some papers in my home office and found this.
For your ping list.
Tozer is always worth it.
What Tozer says in this piece you posted contains something I have heard for the third time tonight, from three different sources.
I know I don’t even have to question whether God is trying to tell me something.
Now it’s a matter of seeing how it’s going to work out in me.
I just noticed. A ten year old thread and as timeless as it was when he first wrote it.
I wonder if there’s any more like this.....
Yes, it is important to God, and the more I study the Bible, the more I realize how much of a wretched soul I am, but then again, John Newton was right, when he wrote, amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a WRETCH like me. Keep up the daily struggle folks, and pray that the Blackhawks win ANOTHER Stanley Cup. 😂😇😆
When I was a younger Christian, I thought by the time I reached the age I am now and had so many years as a Christian under my belt, that I’d finally have gotten somewhere in my Christian life.
And I have, but not in the way I expected by any means, nor did I expect to be so confronted with the unworthiness of the gift of salvation that I am becoming more keenly aware of by the day (or by the minute).
I expected to have much more victory over sin than I do and yet the further I go, the more the Lord is revealing to me about what is still in the flesh.
Blackhawks? Pffftttt......
Go Sabres!!!!!!
I found a few more under the keyword of Tozer that I will ping out and revive over the next few days.
A keyword search of Tozer gives a treasure trove of old devotionals of his posted by Sopater.
Here, for anyone who wants to treat themselves to more Tozer.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tozer/index?tab=articles
What you just described fits me to a T. I would suspect most Christians are there too. I also expected to have more victory over sin too, but maybe I just get a deeper understanding of what Jeremiah 17:9 really means. The heart is deceitful above all and desperately wicked. There is no hope whatsoever, for the human heart. The only thing that will work, is for God to put a new heart in us. We have no power to fix our hearts, only God can do it, not because we follow some religious doctrines. He just gives us a whole new nature. Later.
God isn’t out to reform but to regenerate.
You can’t reform something dead. You have to give it new life then it truly is a new creation.
I read it and failed to come up with just what ‘holiness’ IS.
Is it things we DO? or do NOT do?
I didn't come to bring peace; but a sword.
You've described my situation to a "T"!!
But my sin nature is intact and vibrant.
Thus; your screenname; no doubt!
Hundreds; no doubt...
Hockey?
Soccer with sharp things on yer feet.
Wow!
Another Great Mind Thinking like mine!
Thank you for doing this.
“When I was a younger Christian, I thought by the time I reached the age I am now and had so many years as a Christian under my belt, that I’d finally have gotten somewhere in my Christian life.”
The foot of the Cross is a good place to find everything you need.
I agree. The ONLY way we can be holy as God is by faith in Jesus, believing in Him who saves us by His precious shed blood. We are sanctified (set apart) and made holy because we are clothed in the righteousness of Christ through faith. We are “found in Christ not having our own righteousness” but CHRIST’S righteousness.
And THANK GOD for that, because I know what’s in me.
Absolutely.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.