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But though the world can see no more Him it cast out with scorn, The eye of fresh‑born faith can soar Above—where He is gone.
Are we … looking steadfastly into heaven? Alas! what inconstant hearts we have; how fickle and changing! The Holy Ghost ever leads the eye to, and would keep it fixed on, Jesus. … To reveal and glorify Him is the habitual aim of the Spirit.
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It is well to be done with ourselves and to be taken up with Jesus. We are entitled to forget ourselves, we are entitled to forget our sins, we are entitled to forget all but Jesus.
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(Heb. 12:1, 2.) The way in which the apostle engages them to disentangle themselves from every hindrance, whether sin or difficulty, is remarkable; as though they had nothing to do but cast them off as useless weights. And, in fact, when we look at Jesus nothing is easier; when we are not looking at Him, nothing more impossible.
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What I would press upon you is to study Christ, so that we may be like Him here. There is nothing that so fills the soul with blessing and encouragement, or that so sanctifies: nothing which so gives the living sense of divine love, that gives courage.
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The Lord give us while resting in His precious blood to go and contemplate Him, feed upon Him and live by Him. … See Him the lowly blessed patient One at God’s right hand now, the One that God has given to keep our hearts right in the world of folly and pride.
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When we are occupied with Jesus the littleness of all that one is, or of all that one has done, remains in the shade, and Jesus Himself alone stands out in relief.
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There is a danger of being too much occupied with evil; it does not refresh, does not help the soul on. “Abstain from every form of evil,” but be occupied ourselves and occupy others with Christ. The evil itself becomes not less evil, but less in comparison with the power of good where the soul dwells.
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Looking to God one is above the heaving and breakers, and walking on a rough sea is the same as walking on a smooth sea.
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If Christ is my life … Christ and heavenly things become the object of my life. Every creature must have an object. It is God’s supreme prerogative not to want an object. He may love an object; but I cannot live without an object any more than without food. … “We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” There is the life; and this life has got a perfect blessed object which it delights in and contemplates: and this the Lord Jesus is … in His glory.
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How the
heart knows that, how sweet soever the common joy of
saints … yet that in joys and sorrows there is a
looking to Jesus, a communion with Jesus, a dependence
of heart on His approbation, in which none can
participate. … The heart that knows Him could not do
without this. Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the
Writings, Hymns, Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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