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glory, Lord—this living waste Our path is on with earnest haste, Lord, in Thy rest to live.
The man with one object is the energetic man. The Christian’s one object is Christ.
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It is devotedness that … God will have: everywhere … that love for souls which seeks them out with more activity easily grows slack. … One may lose one’s first love as to the work while continuing to work. May God kindle in us again that energy of love.
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Certainly riches never entered the church of God without producing more trial and difficulty. You may see rich men giving their riches to relieve the poverty of others, and this is very blessed; but wherever the character of riches continues it enfeebles the energies of the church of God.
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Where there is the energy of the Spirit, there is light, and a single eye which makes us judge that Christ is worth all, and that all else is worth nothing: and this purifies the saint’s heart.
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We need to be constantly renewed; without that, spiritual energy does not keep up. … And it is not progress in knowledge that effects that … what is of moment is the keeping of oneself near God. There love maintains itself and grows—His love in our soul.
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In seeking earnestly the Lord and His grace … power comes in to deliver and free us and make us find in Christ delight which shuts out evil and the world. Seek this, and do not be lazy in divine things.
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Christ is presented in glory as One who leads us on in energy, conforming us to what He is according to glory; and … when the question is of nourishing the inward life … and character, it is the humbled Christ on whom we have to feed. This is partly the case in Philippians 2 and 3: the former the inward state and character, Christ coming down; the latter a glorified Christ, the Object after which we run.
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(2 Cor. 11. 23 33.) Troubles and dangers without, incessant anxieties within, a courage that quailed before no peril, a love for poor sinners and for the assembly that nothing chilled—these few lines sketch the picture of a life of such absolute devotedness that it touches the coldest heart; it makes us feel our selfishness, and bend the knee before Him who was the living source of the blessed apostle’s devotedness, before Him whose glory inspired it.
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Our souls know what it is to leave things here behind, and to find Christ excellently precious: and then some vain trifle comes in, and pulls us down, and makes us more intensely interested about the passing trifle than all the solid realities which are in Christ Jesus.
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God produces desires within us that nothing but the glory can satisfy. The Holy Ghost produces the power now to enter into these things. This shews the importance of our minds dwelling there …. “Whatsoever is lovely”—or “of good report, think on these things.” How bright the heart would be! What growing up to the knowledge and preciousness of Christ, if accustomed to be where God dwells.
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The
secret of
real progress is personal attachment to Himself. 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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