For Love Of God

Monday, February 25, 2013

Abraham was not a devotee of his convictions, or he would have slain Isaac and said that the voice of the angel was the voice of the devil. That is the attitude of a fanatic. If you will remain true to God, God will lead you straight through every barrier into the inner chamber of the knowledge of Himself; but there is always this point of giving up convictions and traditional beliefs. Don’t ask God to test you. Never declare as Peter did – "I will do anything, I will go to death with Thee." Abraham did not make any such declaration, he remained true to God, and God purified his faith.
- Oswald Chambers

4 comments:

Todd Saunders said...: Abraham believed. God, I believe, saw a willing heart that could not be added to.; February 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM
Bhedr said...: Having opened his eyes and having drawn him unto that belief....he he he he brother. I couldn't resist the Calvinism in me. Love ya. but amen. Abraham believed God. Amen! and His heart was willing.; February 26, 2013 at 6:24 PM
Unknown said...: ;); February 28, 2013 at 6:45 PM
Bhedr said...: Hey there Johanna; February 28, 2013 at 7:24 PM

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Nothing Is Impossible With God!!!

In the book, Life and Works of Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon gives the account of his conversion. This hope is there for anyone who would ONLY LOOK TO CHRIST:It pleased God in my childhood to convince me of sin.… My heart was broken in pieces. Six months did I pray—prayed agonizingly with all my heart, and never had an answer. I resolved that, in the town where I lived, I would visit every place of worship in order to find out the way of salvation. I felt I was willing to do anything and be anything if God would only forgive me.I set off, determined to go round to all the chapels; and I went to all the places of worship; and though I dearly venerate the men that occupy those pulpits now, and did so then, I am bound to say that I never heard them once fully preach the Gospel. I mean by that, they preached truth, great truths, many good truths that were fitting to many of their congregation—spiritually-minded people; but what I wanted to know was, How can I get my sins forgiven? And they never once told me that. I wanted to hear how a poor sinner, under a sense of sin, might find peace with God; and when I went I heard a sermon on "Be not deceived: God is not mocked," which cut me up worse, but did not say how I might escape. I went again another day, and the text was something about the glories of the righteous: nothing for poor me.…At last, one snowy day—it snowed so much I could not go to the place I had determined to go to, and I was obliged to stop on the road, and it was a blessed stop to me—I found rather an obscure street, and turned down a court, and there was a little chapel.…I wanted to know how I might be saved.…At last a very thin-looking man came into the pulpit and opened his Bible and read these words: "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth." Just setting his eyes upon me, as if he knew me all by heart, he said, "Young man, you are in trouble." Well, I was, sure enough. Says he, "You will never get out of it unless you look to Christ."And then, lifting up his hands, he cried out…, "Look, look, look! It is only look!" I saw at once the way of salvation. Oh, how I did leap for joy at that moment! I know not what else he said; I did not take much notice of it—I was so possessed with that one thought. Like as when the brazen serpent was lifted up, they only looked and were healed. I had been waiting to do fifty things, but when I heard this word "Look!" what a charming word it seemed to me! Oh, I looked until I could almost have looked my eyes away! And in Heaven I will look on still in my joy unutterable.

After the Sermon On The Mount, Jesus came down from the Mount and a leper was the first person to meet Him knowing that the Lord was oh so willing to heal him, and then a centurion with a tormented servant knew that all God had to do was just say the word and he would be healed. It is almost the same with salvation. I say almost because God has already spoken the word:

"IT IS FINISHED!"

Believe that He has already spoken and your salvation will be finished as well. Do you hear him from your graves calling out to you and saying,

"IT IS FINISHED!"?

Hear Him now.

Only Look To Christ!!!