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1 | our sacrifice and our faith | Rom 12:1 | meusing | 43468 | ||
As I was reading CHM's Notes of Gen. this passage caught my eye as it seems to relate here to Rom 12:1. please forgive any spelling mistakes. "The soul that has found ALL its springs in God, can, without any demur, retire from ALL creature streams. We dan give up the creature just in proportion as we have found out, or become experimentally acquainted with, the Creator. and no further. To attempt to give up the visible things in any other way save in the energy of that faith which lays hold of the invisible, is the most fruitless labor possible. It cannot be done. I will hold fast my Isaac until I have found my all in God. It is when we are enabled, by faith, to say, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble," that we can also add, "Therefoe we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea" (Ps 46:1-2). ... there is ready obediance. Faith never stops to look at circumstances, or ponder results; it only 'looks at God; it expresses itself thus: "But when it pleased God, who separated me form my mother's womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I maight preach him among the gentiles, Immediatly I conferred not with flesh and blood" (Gal 1:15-16). The moment we confer with flesh and blood, our testimony and service are marred, for flesh and blood can never obey. We must rise early, and carry out, through grace, the divine command. Thus we are blessed, and God is glorified. Having God's own Word as the basis for our acting, will ever impart strength and stability to our acting. |
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2 | our sacrifice and our faith | Rom 12:1 | angel1 | 43507 | ||
Hi meusing--Who can disagree with scripture?--yet, I notice the absence of the name of Jesus in this post. there is no service except to Him. There is nothing about "springs" or "streams' in Rom. 12:1 "I beseech you ,therefore, bretheren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.". What do you mean by "creature streams?" and "ready obedience?"--Maybe you have it but the rest of us are still working on it--clay on the potter's wheel still being shaped. I know sometimes I seem "hostile " to others I don't mean to be so .I am very passionate for Jesus and mean only to diolog with others about Him and God's word. in Him angel-1 | ||||||
3 | our sacrifice and our faith | Rom 12:1 | meusing | 43527 | ||
Jesus said that those who believe in Him out of His belly shall flow streams of living water (John 7:38). see also John 4:14 CHM was speaking metephoricly about us finding our all in all in God. as Jeremiah said God is the fountain of living water, all other is streams from broken cisterns.(Jer 2:13). Rising up early in the moning to do God's will even if it is as in Abraham's case to sacrifice your son is ready obedience -- looking at God and His promise rather than my own objections my 'creature stream' if you will THAT is living sacrifice. |
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