The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. Discipline toward holiness begins then with the Scriptures – with a disciplined plan for regular intake of the Scriptures and a disciplined plan for applying them to our daily lives. The Bible is not meant merely to inform, but to transform. Bible was not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives. The doctrines of Scripture are facts, which involve corresponding emotions and principles of action, and must, from their very nature, if believed, be operative upon the heart and the life. Ask yourselves the solemn question. In proportion as you store your minds with biblical texts and biblical ideas – are you all the while seeking to have your heart filled with biblical feelings, and your life with biblical actions? Every Christian should be conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior. The Word of life may be so distorted from the life of the Word till it becomes the food of death. Give yourself wholly to the text, and apply all you learn to yourself. The Christian’s life should put his minister’s sermon in print. The Word of God is not to be used as a lottery; nor is it designed to instruct us by shreds and scraps, which, detached from their proper places, have no determinate import; but it is to furnish us with just principles, right apprehensions to regulate our judgments and affections, and thereby to influence and direct our conduct. Resolve to cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout, Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. Remember God’s commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory. God Bless.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:43:29 +0000
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