Me, Myself and I

"For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness ... even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness" (Romans 6:19)

True Christianity deals with the human problem of the self-life, with the basic matter of "me, myself and I". The Spirit of God deals with it by an intolerant and final destruction, saying, "This selfish I cannot live if God is to be glorified in this human life."

God Himself deals with this aspect of human nature - the sum of all our proud life - and pronounces a stern condemnation upon it, flatly and frankly disapproving of it, fully and completely rejecting it.

And what does God say about it? "I am God alone, and I will have nothing to do with man's selfish ego, in which I find the essence of rebellion and disobedience and unbelief. Man's nature in its pride of self and egotism is anti-God - and sinful, indeed!"

He who is not a stranger to the spirit of self-denial, has learned to make his own interest bend to the interest of God's kingdom. It is his great concern that God should be glorified, that His laws should be obeyed, His gospel loved, and the highest interest of His infinitely extended kingdom prevail and triumph.

~A. W. Tozer~

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High Plans for Humans

"Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey His voice, and ye shall serve Him" (Deuteronomy 13:4)

When the wonder of regeneration has taken place in our lives, then comes the lifetime of preparation with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

God has told us that heaven and the glories of the heavenly kingdom are more than humans can ever dream or imagine. It will be neither an exhibition of the commonplace nor a  democracy for the spiritually mediocre.

Why should we try to be detractors of God's gracious and rewarding plan of discipleship? God has high plans for all of His redeemed ones. It is inherent in His infinite being that His motives are love and goodness. His plans for us come out of His eternal and creative wisdom and power.

Beyond that is His knowledge and regard for the astonishing potential that lies resident in human nature, long asleep in sin but awakened by the Holy Spirit in regeneration.

Redemption puts God where He belongs - exalted to the throne - and man where he belongs - down in the dust - in order that God may raise man to the throne.

~A. W. Tozer~