God Sees All, Knows All

"To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God" (Revelation 2:7)

We have lived with unholiness so long that we are almost incapable of recognizing true holiness. The people of God in the churches of Jesus Christ ought to be a holy people. But ministers have largely given up preaching Bible-centered sermons on holiness. Maybe they would not know what to do with hearers who fell under the convicting power of God's Word. Preachers today would rather give their congregations tranquilizers.

Our Lord is a holy Lord, and His eyes are as a flame of fire. His X-ray eyes can see right through everything! We can hide nothing from God. He sees all and knows all. But apparently we have a hard time with that fact - preachers and lay people alike. We seem to think our respectability should be accepted by our Lord as spirituality.

The basic principle in a spiritual life lies in its control. The Holy Spirit works to bring the Christian to refuse the further reign of self and to choose the sovereignty of Christ over his life by yielding to Him as Lord.

You cannot get power from God until you receive holiness.

~A. W. Tozer~

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Come to the Water

"Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst" (John 4:14)

I thank God for Christian men and women who want to know the facts and the truths as they have come from God. Thank God, they are not just looking for someone to give them a relaxing religious massage! These are the facts - the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses. There is a purging element in Christianity. Then there is the Holy Spirit, the blessed Spirit of God who brings us the peace and tranquillity of the waters of Shiloah.

The living God invites us to the stream, the only perennial stream in the world, the only stream that never runs dry, the only stream that never overflows and destroys.

There flows from Calvary a stream
For every sinner's pain,
And he that drinketh, Jesus said,
Shall never thirst again.

This stream from Calvary still flows
To bless and cleanse and heal,
And he that drinketh, Jesus said,
New life and rest shall feel.

~A. W. Tozer~