"The best that I can hope is that this has just opened a window, and that as you look through it you are seeing one thing - how superior is Jesus Christ to all else!"
- T. Austin-Sparks
March 28
It pleased God… to reveal His Son in me. (Galatians 1:15,16)
If Christ, the Son of God’s love,
is central and supreme in the heart of the believer so much else goes down, it
must go down. Controversies with God will divide, but those artificial things,
those things resultant from man’s activity and his projecting of himself,
insinuating of himself into the interests of God, those things cannot abide
where there is an adequate inward revelation of the Lord Jesus; they cannot be.
These two things are before us: one, because of the revelation of Jesus Christ
in our hearts we have a passion for Him; on the other hand, because of the
absence of a
sufficient revelation of Christ in our hearts we are out for other things which
we would say are in His interests, and for Him, but which can never, never
satisfy God’s heart. It is the satisfaction of the heart of the Father, which
is in view.
Beloved I am speaking about the individual. I am not justified, and you are not
justified, in claiming to be Christians except in the measure in which Christ is
manifested in me, in you; and all the force and weight and ingenuity of hell is
out against that. Believers have far more to provoke them to un-Christ-likeness
than anyone else in the world. Believers have far more assaults to churn them
up and to make them betray Christ than anyone else. Hell is dead set against
the revelation of Jesus Christ. Everything begins with this, the revelation of
Jesus Christ within.
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