The Harvest of a Life Well Lived

"He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting" (Galatians 6:8)

We have but to submit to the Holy Spirit to gain from Him an everlasting reward. Deeds done in the Spirit, in obedience to Christ and with the purpose of bringing honor to the Triune God, are seeds of endless blessedness.

The first gift of life is not by works, but by faith in the work of a sufficient Redeemer; but after the miracle of the new birth has been accomplished, the Christian to a large extent carries his future in his hands. If he denies himself and takes up his cross in meek obedience, his deeds will become seeds of life and everlasting glory.

He may forget his deeds of love or think them small and useless, but God is not unmindful. He never forgets.

The sweet harvest of a life well lived will be there to meet the sower after the toil is ended and the heat of the day is past. 

If you would constantly enjoy God's approving smile, let Him see a spirit of single-hearted devotion to Jesus and uncompromising and unqualified obedience to His will.

~A. W. Tozer~
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The Secret Sanctuary

"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partaker of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4)

It is the teaching of Meister Eckhart that there is something far inside the mysterious depths of a human life which is unknown except as God and the individual know it. This he called the "ground" of the soul.

This "ground" is, according to Eckhart, the stuff which once received the image of God at creation. The lesser powers of the soul are the instruments through which this mysterious primal stuff makes itself felt in the world. These powers are imagination, reason, the faculty of speech and the creative powers.

In this far-in secret sanctuary, God reveals Himself to the individual as a "birth", bringing forth a new creation by the regenerating act of the Holy. Thus we receive from Christ the very nature of God (2 Peter 1:4) and are spiritually prepared for the full revelation of Christ in us, the hope of glory.

In that blessed moment of appropriating faith Christ gives Himself to us as our complete life, covering all our future need, and day by day we just enter into it step by step.

~A. W. Tozer~