Och! Those words hurt...
This message speaks for itself -
May you be challenged -
NOT TO BE THE SAME!
What we say with our lips - MUST be what we produce - OR we are Fakes! Counterfeits! Pharisees! Hypocrites!
Are You Discouraged in Devotion?
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
pg 230
"Yet lackest thou on thing; sell all that thou
hast . . . and come, follow Me." Luke xviii. 22.
"And when he heard this . . . " Have you
ever heard the Master say a hard word? If you
have not, I question whether you have heard
Him say anything. Jesus Christ says a great deal
that we listen to, but do not hear; when we do
hear, His words are amazingly hard.
Jesus did not seem in the least solicitous that
this man should do what He told Him. He made no
attempt to keep him with Him. He simply said
-- 'Sell all you have, and come, follow Me.' Our
Lord never pleaded, He never cajoled, He never
entrapped; He simply spoke the sternest words
mortal ears ever listened to, and then left it alone.
Have I ever heard Jesus say a hard word? Has
He said something personally to me to which I
have deliberately listened? Not something I can
expound or say this an that about, but something
I have heard Him say to me? This man did
understand what Jesus said, he heard it and he
sized up what it meant, and it broke his heart. He
did not go away defiant ; he went away sorrowful,
thoroughly discouraged. He had come to Jesus
full of the fire of earnest desire, and the word of
Jesus simply froze him; instead of producing an
enthusiastic devotion, it produced a heart-breaking
discouragement. And Jesus did not go after him,
He let him go. Our Lord knows perfectly that when
once His word is heard, it will bear fruit sooner or
later. The terrible thing is that some of us prevent
it bearing fruit in actual life. I wonder that we
will say when we do make up our minds to be de-
voted to Him on that particular point ? One thing
is certain, he will never cast anything up at us.
May these words lead you to repentance and then doxology...
because...
His Wrath is Satisfied
May you be challenged -
NOT TO BE THE SAME!
What we say with our lips - MUST be what we produce - OR we are Fakes! Counterfeits! Pharisees! Hypocrites!
Are You Discouraged in Devotion?
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
pg 230
"Yet lackest thou on thing; sell all that thou
hast . . . and come, follow Me." Luke xviii. 22.
"And when he heard this . . . " Have you
ever heard the Master say a hard word? If you
have not, I question whether you have heard
Him say anything. Jesus Christ says a great deal
that we listen to, but do not hear; when we do
hear, His words are amazingly hard.
Jesus did not seem in the least solicitous that
this man should do what He told Him. He made no
attempt to keep him with Him. He simply said
-- 'Sell all you have, and come, follow Me.' Our
Lord never pleaded, He never cajoled, He never
entrapped; He simply spoke the sternest words
mortal ears ever listened to, and then left it alone.
Have I ever heard Jesus say a hard word? Has
He said something personally to me to which I
have deliberately listened? Not something I can
expound or say this an that about, but something
I have heard Him say to me? This man did
understand what Jesus said, he heard it and he
sized up what it meant, and it broke his heart. He
did not go away defiant ; he went away sorrowful,
thoroughly discouraged. He had come to Jesus
full of the fire of earnest desire, and the word of
Jesus simply froze him; instead of producing an
enthusiastic devotion, it produced a heart-breaking
discouragement. And Jesus did not go after him,
He let him go. Our Lord knows perfectly that when
once His word is heard, it will bear fruit sooner or
later. The terrible thing is that some of us prevent
it bearing fruit in actual life. I wonder that we
will say when we do make up our minds to be de-
voted to Him on that particular point ? One thing
is certain, he will never cast anything up at us.
May these words lead you to repentance and then doxology...
because...
His Wrath is Satisfied
posted by PJC at 7:15 pm
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