The Lord of Your Life

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other" (Matthew 6:24)

Before you can be filled with the Spirit you must desire to be filled. Are you sure that you want to be possessed by a spirit other than your own? even though that Spirit be the pure Spirit of God? even though He be the very gentle essence of the gentle Jesus? even though He be sane and pure and free? even though He be wisdom personified, wisdom Himself, even though He have a healing, precious ointment to distill? even though He be loving as the heart of God?

That Spirit, if He ever possess you, will be the Lord of your life!

I ask you, Do you want Him to be Lord of your life? That you want His benefits, I know. I take that for granted. But do you want to be possessed by Him? Do you want to hand the keys of your soul over to the Holy Spirit? Are you willing to give the office of your business establishment, your soul, over to the Lord? Are you sure you want this?

One thing is plain: Christians cannot be worldlings. They cannot be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.

~A. W. Tozer~

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Are You Sure?

"For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him" (Romans 6:7-8)

Are you sure that you want your personality to be taken over by One who will expect obedience to the written and living Word? Are you sure that you want your personality to be taken over by One who will not tolerate the self-sins?

For instance, self-love. You can no more have the Holy Spirit and have self-love than you can have purity and impurity at the same moment in the same place.

Self-love, self-confidence, self-righteousness, self-admiration, self-aggrandizement, and self-pity are under the interdiction of God Almighty, and He cannot send His mighty Spirit to possess the heart where these things are.

Do you desire to have your personality taken over by One who stands in sharp opposition to the world's easy ways? The Spirit of God, if He takes over, will bring you into opposition to the world.l Are you sure, brother?

As the spirit of self-advancement is the root of all sin, so the spirit of self-denial the root of all holiness.

~A. W. Tozer~