God made us for Himself\u2014that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart<\/i> of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say.1<\/p>\n
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God formed us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we, as well as He, can in divine communion enjoy the sweet and mysterious mingling of kindred personalities. He meant us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His smile.2<\/p>\n
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A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here waiting our response to His presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.3<\/p>\n
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What God in His sovereignty may yet do on a world-scale I do not claim to know. But what He will do for the plain man or woman who seeks His face I believe I do know and can tell others. Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.4<\/p>\n
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The cause of all our human miseries is a radical moral dislocation, an upset in our relation to God and to each other.5<\/p>\n
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Every soul belongs to God and exists by His pleasure. God being who and what He is, and we being who and what we are, the only thinkable relation between us is one of full Lordship on His part and complete submission on ours. We owe Him every honor that it is in our power to give Him. Our everlasting grief lies in giving Him anything less.6<\/p>\n
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The man of God set his heart to exalt God above all; God accepted his intention as fact and acted accordingly. Not perfection, but holy intention made the difference.7<\/p>\n
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The whole course of the life is upset by failure to put God where He belongs.8<\/p>\n
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In our desire after God let us keep always in mind that God also has desire, and His desire is toward the sons of men, and more particularly toward those sons of men who will make the once-for-all decision to exalt Him over all.9<\/p>\n
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The whole man must make the decision before the heart can know any real satisfaction. God wants the whole person, and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do.10<\/p>\n
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The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God\u2019s victory over him.11<\/p>\n
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Human personality is dear to God because it is of all created things the nearest to being like Himself.12<\/p>\n
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To speak to God on behalf of men is probably the highest service any of us can render. The next is to speak to men in the name of God. Either is a privilege possible to us only through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.13<\/p>\n
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Only that creature whom He called \u201cman\u201d did God make in His own image and likeness. So, when man failed and sinned and fell, God said, \u201cI will go down now.\u201d<\/p>\n
God came down to visit us in the form of a man, for in Jesus Christ we have the incarnation, \u201cGod manifest in the flesh.\u201d God Himself came down to this earthly island of man\u2019s grief and assumed our loss and took upon Himself our demerits, and in so doing redeemed us back unto Himself. Jesus Christ, the King of glory, the everlasting Son of the Father, in His victory over sin and death opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers!<\/p>\n
That is what the Bible teaches. That is what the Christian church believes. It is the essence of the doctrines of the Christian church relating to atonement and salvation14<\/p>\n
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The man that has the most of God is the man who is seeking the most ardently for more of God.15<\/p>\n
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The teaching of the New Testament is that now, at this very moment, there is a man in heaven appearing in the presence of God for us. He is as certainly a man as was Adam or Moses or Paul. He is a man glorified, but His glorification did not dehumanize Him. Today He is a real man, of the race of mankind, bearing our lineaments and dimensions, a visible and audible man whom any other man would recognize instantly as one of us.16<\/p>\n
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When God resists a man for the sins of his spirit and attitude, a slow, inward spiritual degeneration will take place as a signal of the judgment that has come. A slow hardening that comes from unwillingness to yield will result in cynicism. The Christian joy will disappear and there will be no more fruits of the Spirit.17<\/p>\n
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Men and women have lost all sight of the fact that they are important to God. We are all important to God in setting forth the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.18<\/p>\n
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Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty.19<\/p>\n
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God wants to humble you and fill you with Himself and control you so that you can become part of the eternal work that God wants to do in the earth in your day!20<\/p>\n
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Man is better qualified to appreciate God than any other creature because he was made in His image and is the only creature who was. This admiration for God grows and grows until it fills the heart with wonder and delight.21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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