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This Rings True
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This really struck me as true. Is it true for you as well?
“The first device that Satan has to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, and so making their life a hell, is by causing them to be still poring and musing upon sin, to mind their sins more than their Savior; yes, so to mind their sins as to forget, yes, to neglect their Savior, that, as the Psalmist speaks, ‘The Lord is not in all their thoughts’ (Psalm 10:4). Their eyes are so fixed upon their disease, that they cannot see the remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts, that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their Surety. A Christian should wear Christ in his bosom as a flower of delight, for he is a whole paradise of delight. He who minds not Christ more than his sin, can never be thankful and fruitful as he should.” — Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices
HT = Miscellanies.
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God Is Still At Work
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“God never stops working in and through our lives. So many people speak of our enemy and his relentlessness. How much greater is God’s relentlessness!” -David Vinson
That quote speaks volumes to me. On one level it speaks of sanctification. Since God is at work in our lives, we too, we should as well.
It also speaks to a person who has been fearful at different times in his life. But, we can be certain of this; God is present and at work in our lives.
Amen?
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might (Ephesians 6:10).
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Focus
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Focusing on What Really Matters
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, commenting on Philippians 1:10 (”that you may approve what is excellent,” or “that you may have a sense of what is vital”):
The difficulty in life is to know on what we ought to concentrate. The whole art of life, I sometimes think, is the art of knowing what to leave out, what to ignore, what to put on one side. How prone we are to dissipate our energies and to waste our time by forgetting what is vital and giving ourselves to second and third rate issues. Now, says Paul, here you are in the Christian life, you are concerned about difficulties, about oppositions and about the contradictions of life. What you need is just this: the power to concentrate on that which is vital, to leave out everything else, and to keep steadily to the one thing that matters. (The Life of Joy: Philippians, vol. 1, pp. 54-55).
I think this really speaks to the need of relationship. Focus can only be effective when it arises from an intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Otherwise we tent to be diffused in our focus. That needs to be our first and highest priority in life; to be rightly related to our Lord Jesus. From that all the issues will flow. A lack of right relationship will always show in a lack of balance and focus.
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The Burden
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The man who is really feeling the burden is a man pressed to his knees and pressed into the presence of God. His supreme activity is prayer. For he realizes that this is a province that God alone can deal with. He knows the burden. And a man who is burdened is a man who prays. — Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Amen and amen and amen…….
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Not A Long Life
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“God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.” — Jim Elliot
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And history shows that God honored that prayer…….
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