What Would Jesus Do?

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another" (Colossians 3:16).

I have known people who seemed to be terrified by God's loving desire that we should reflect His own holiness and goodness. As God's faithful children, we should be attracted to holiness, for holiness is God-likeness - likeness to God!

God encourages every Christian believer to follow after holiness. Holiness is to be our constant ambition - not as holy as God is holy, but holy because God is holy. We know who we are and God knows who He is. He does not ask us to be God, and He does not ask us to produce the holiness that only He Himself knows. Only God is holy absolutely; all other beings can be holy only in relative degrees.

The angels in heaven do not possess God's holiness. They are created beings and they are content to reflect the glory of God. That is their holiness.

Holiness is not terrifying. Actually, it is amazing and wonderful that God should promise us the privilege of sharing in His nature.

To know Christ is the way to grow in holiness. Christianity is the religion of the divine example. Ask yourself ... what would Jesus do is He were here? Nothing else will so surely lead us into the way of holy living.

~A. W. Tozer~

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Only One Spirit

"No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit" (1 Corinthians 12:3).

I think that one of the most hopeless tasks in the world is that of trying to create some love for Christ our Saviour among those who refuse and deny that there is a need for a definite spiritual experience of Jesus Christ in the human life.

I cannot understand the activities of many churches - their futile exercise of trying to whip up love and concern for Jesus Christ when there is no teaching of the new birth, no teaching of redemption through His blood, no dependence upon spiritual illumination by the Spirit of God!

No one can love the Lord Jesus Christ unless the Spirit of God is given opportunity to reveal Him in the life. No one can say that  Jesus is Lord except the Holy Spirit enables him through spiritual life and experience.

Those who have "put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness," love God because He is just such a God as He is. The enemies of God may love Him for what they imagine Him to be; none but the real friends of God love Him for what He is.

~A. W. Tozer~