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Filled With His Fullness, May 28
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye
might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Ephesians 3:19
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Only those will have a fitness for the mansions above who give to God
full and implicit obedience. God knows that we would not appreciate His
rarest gifts if we were not perfectly submissive to obey Him, and always
keep His glory in view....
Whatever your temperament may be, whatever your hereditary and
cultivated tendencies may be, there is a character to be formed after
the divine pattern. We have no excuse for retaining our own mold and
superscription of nature, for Christ has died that we may have His mold
and His superscription. We cannot retain our own self and be filled with
the fullness of God. We must be emptied of self. If heaven is gained by
us at last, it will be only through the renunciation of self and in receiving
the mind, the spirit, and the will of Christ Jesus....
Are we willing to pay the price for eternal life? Are we ready to sit
down and count the cost, whether heaven is worth such a sacrifice as to
die to self and let our will be bent and fashioned into perfect conformity
with the will of God? Until this shall be, the transforming grace of God
will not be experienced by us.
Just as soon as we present our emptied nature to the Lord Jesus and
His cause, He will supply the vacuum by His Holy Spirit. We can then
believe He will give us of His fullness. He does not want us to perish. We
do not want more of God any more urgently than He wants all that there
is of us to be consecrated to His service....
Eternity is endless. Our life here is a short period at best, and what
and whom are we living and working for? And what will be the outcome
of it all?
The religion of Jesus Christ we need daily. Everything we do or say
comes under the notice of God. We are a spectacle unto the world, to
angels, and to men.... The church of Christ is to represent His character....
Though He had all the strength of passion of humanity, never did He yield
to temptation to do one single act which was not pure and elevating and
ennobling.
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