Seeker, Pretender, or In-The-Rut Disciple

People in the rut never know when the last leaves are falling for them. Why are people in the rut? There are several possibilities. However, they may never have been truly converted at all, and this is one of our great problems now.

Henceforth, We have a dozen ways of getting people into the kingdom of God, when the Lord said there was only one. They eventually leak in, ooze in, come in by osmosis and get in by marriage–just get in by any kind of way. But there is only one true way. When people find that after being in the church for years they are not making much progress, they ought to examine themselves and wonder whether they have been truly converted.

Furthermore, true conversion means radical repentance, a changed life, conscious forgiveness of sin and a spiritual rebirth. Genuinely converted people, as the old Methodists said, had a radical repentance, which eventuated in a changed life. Then there came a consciousness of forgiveness of sins and a spiritual rebirth. People in the rut may never have had that at all.

To let the cat out of the bag, people in the circular grave, who are getting older without getting holier, may have been abandoned to the devil because of two things–some fleshly sins (1 Corinthians 5) or grave irreverence at the communion table (1 Corinthians 11). Protestants are altogether too much inclined to take things for granted.

Fartherly, we laugh at those on the other side of the ecclesiastical fence because they bow, scrape and kowtow in the presence of the church. But we lack reverence–not because we are free in the gospel, but because God is absent, and we have no sense of His presence. We sometimes come to the communion table in a moral and spiritual state totally unfit for receiving communion, and yet we take it. Paul said, “We are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.”

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What Do You Mean?

A disturbing phenomenon of the day is the new and tricky use of familiar words.

The ”People’s republic,” for instance, is not a republic nor does it belong to the people. The word ”freedom” now in most countries refers to something so restricted that a generation or two ago another word altogether would have been chosen to describe it.

Other words that have changed their meanings without admitting it are ”war,” ”peace”, ”grant” (to describe the small tops, the government tosses back out of the money it has previously taken from us), ”right,” ”left”, ”equality”, ”security”, ”liberal” and many more. These have been emptied of their meaning and a different meaning has been poured into them. We may now read them or hear them spoken and, unless we are very sharp, gain from them a wholly false idea.

This phenomenon has invaded the field of religion also. In a predominantly Christian society such as prevails in the West the words of Scripture and of Christian theology have quite naturally acquired a fixed meaning and until recently always meant the same thing whenever they were used by educated and responsible persons.

Henceforth, with the coming of the various revolutions–scientific, industrial, philosophical, social, artistic, political–fixed meanings have deserted religious words and now float about like disembodied spirits, looking for, but apparently never finding the bodies from which they have been exercised by the revolutionists.

Among religious words which have lost their Christian meaning are ”inspiration, ”revelation”, ”spiritual”, ”fellowship”, ”brotherhood”, ”unity”, ”worship”, ”prayer”, ”heaven”, ”immortality”, ”hell”, ”Lord”, ”new birth”, ”converted”–but the list is long and includes almost every major word of the Christian faith.

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Home Is Not Where We Live, But Where We Belong

You are my home. No Matter where I go, I Always carry the momentos of home with me. During the bad or good Weather, I talk about the memories without my knowledge. I continue resembling how it was and how it can continue.

The home which never forced nor forces me to conform to its religion, culture, language or anything which varies from my side. As I keep living far from it, but no matter what, I happily keep reminding myself and everyone that I have a home. And no one nor any home away from home can ever replace the home that I have.

With no knowledge, the imagination and the short talks about my home are the prayers which ensure my home remains my home no matter the Cyclone Eloise arrive or the COVID-19 strikes hard on it.

When my home claims to not be my home. Actually, I never argue. However, my heart keeps repeating and telling all that I seriously have a home. I keep on claiming it, taking it and receiving it faithfully. Until my home loses its keys in my hands and says, “Return to me and unlock! Live in me and with me, dear!! For home is not home without You♡!”

To break the hearty ice, one once said that home is where the heart is. Eventually, I can say that as well. For no matter the floods, storms or any spiritual war which tries to damage the house from its roots. It keeps on standing. For it was not build on the sandy ground, but it was began via the deeper foundations which no one can realize.

Even though, sometimes my Cement gets stolen while ensuring some cracked particles does not break apart while home, and the walls never becomes too weak to fall on windy days, God always ensure that the particles are repaired super-naturally. And I am glad to say that I will never leave home no matter what or where the adventure of life takes me.

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Home Is Not Where We Live, But Where We Belong

You are my home. No Matter where I go, I Always carry the momentos of home with me. During the bad or good Weather, I talk about the memories without my knowledge. I continue resembling how it was and how it can continue.

The home which never forced nor forces me to conform to its religion, culture, language or anything which varies from my side. As I keep living far from it, but no matter what, I happily keep reminding myself and everyone that I have a home. And no one nor any home away from home can ever replace the home that I have.

With no knowledge, the imagination and the short talks about my home are the prayers which ensure my home remains my home no matter the Cyclone Eloise arrive or the COVID-19 strikes hard on it.

When my home claims to not be my home. Actually, I never argue. However, my heart keeps repeating and telling all that I seriously have a home. I keep on claiming it, taking it and receiving it faithfully. Until my home loses its keys in my hands and says, “Return to me and unlock! Live in me and with me, dear!! For home is not home without You♡!”

To break the hearty ice, one once said that home is where the heart is. Eventually, I can say that as well. For no matter the floods, storms or any spiritual war which tries to damage the house from its roots. It keeps on standing. For it was not build on the sandy ground, but it was began via the deeper foundations which no one can realize.

Even though, sometimes my Cement gets stolen while ensuring some cracked particles does not break apart while home, and the walls never becomes too weak to fall on windy days, God always ensure that the particles are repaired super-naturally. And I am glad to say that I will never leave home no matter what or where the adventure of life takes me.

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God’s Gentle Whisper

There are truths that can never be learned except in the noise and confusion of the market place or in the tough brutality of combat. The tumult and the shouting teach their own rough lessons. No man is quite a man who has not been to the school of work and war, who has not heard the cry at birth and the sigh at life’s parting.

Henceforth, there is another school where the soul must go to learn its best eternal lessons. It is the school of silence. Be still and know, said the psalmist, and there is a profound philosophy there, of universal application.

Prayer among evangelical Christians is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. Almost every book on prayer deals with the get element mainly. How to get things we want from God occupies most of the space.

Now, we gladly admit that we may ask for and receive specific gifts and benefits in answer to prayer, but we must never forget that the highest kind of prayer is never the making of requests. Prayer at its holiest moment is the entering into God to a place of such blessed union as makes miracles seem tame and remarkable answers to prayer appear something very far short of wonderful by comparison.

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Following The Truth

To know the truth is the greatest privilege any man can enjoy in this life, as truth itself is without doubt the richest treasure anyone can possess. This follows from the nature of truth, and from the world-outlasting dowry it brings to those who open their hearts to it.

Henceforth, apart from truth our human lives would lose all their value, and we ourselves become no better than the beasts that perish. Our response to truth should be eager and instant. We dare not dally with it; we dare not treat it as something we can obey or not obey, at our pleasure. It is a glorious friend, but it is nevertheless a hard master, exacting unquestioning obedience.

Whilst a life lived in conformity with the truth will come at last to a good and peaceful end, candor requires us to admit that the lover of truth will have to endure more of thr heartache, more of the sorrow as he journeys through the wilderness. This is the price the world makes him pay for the priceless privilege of obeying the truth. The world being what it is, truth must carry its own forfeit. The servant of truth will be penalized for his devotion. So goes the world always.

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The “Rote” to “Rutness”

We can go one step further and come to what I will call the rut, which is bondage to the rote. When we are unable to see and sense bondage to the rote, we are in a rut.

For example, a man may be sick and not even know it. The doctors may have confided in the man’s wife and said, “We don’t want to frighten your husband, but he could drop any minute. He is critically ill so just expect it at any moment.”

Henceforth, the man himself does not know he is seriously ill. He goes about his business as though nothing is wrong. He may play golf or tennis, maybe even go on a hunting trip. He is sick, and yet he does not know how sick he really is. This may in fact hasten his end. Not knowing is risky business and full of danger. Spiritually speaking, the rut is bondage to the rote, and the greatest danger lies in our inability to sense or feel this bondage.

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He Who Protects Himself From Cold, Also Wards Off Heat

Sometimes some people think it is easy to get everything you want. You work hard in silence and doing all your best. And they don’t even see that you are doing your best and the position which you are at, you do not like it. And moving to another level is within your best interest.

All they see it is what is infront of them. They watch you hustling, and think you gave up in life or worse, you love the position you are at. They cannot see the prayers you do privately in your heart. All smiley and happy all the time. Being grateful to the little you have and having faith that God is still preparing something huge within the Department of your profession.

It can never be easy to just open up the bag of your dirty laundry for everyone to see. For no matter how much you show them that actually the reason for your daily happiness is not because you got everything  you need in your life. However, all because you are grateful for everything and everyone you got surrounding you.

Sometimes even telling folks your business won’t even get you out of the mess or whatever personal stress you have. You being quiet and happy does not mean that you do not have any lack. All you have to know is that, you did not come into this world to serve yourself nor any of your desires. Hence, God brought you forth to serve Him. To bring back His souls to Him the best way you can before He can bless you massively.

To break the ice, it has never been easy. However, I am happy to be in His Palace. Serving Him and waiting on Him. Without Him, even the died body without any flesh, but its soul and spirit in Heaven without our knowledge is way better. Without God, everyone is died-living. Died walking daily to fulfil their worldly chores.

Furthermore, He did not say “seek He first the kingdom of God” blindly. He said it, knowing that the worldly riches depend on heavenly riches. One cannot access the worldly riches without being rich in Heaven.

Resemble that other worldly riches got accessed via selling folks’ souls and spirits. Swearing to serve the devil for the rest of your life because you are unable to be patient at the compound God put you at.

So be real enough to remain faithful to God alone.

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THINK LIKE GOD THINKS

If God knows that your intention is to worship Him with every part of your being, He has promised to cooperate with you. On His side is the love and grace, the promises and the atonement, the constant help and the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Whilst on your side there is determination, seeking, yielding, believing. Your heart becomes a chamber, a sanctuary, a shrine in which there may be continuous, unbroken fellowship and communion with God. Your worship rises to God moment by moment!

We have all found that God will not dwell in spiteful, proud and selfish thoughts. He treasures our pure and loving thoughts, our meek, charitable and kindly thoughts. They are the thoughts like His own! As God dwells in your thoughts, you will be worshiping-and God will be accepting. He will be smelling the incense of your high intentions even when the cares of life are intense and there is activity all around you. This leaves us no argument. We know what God wants us to be. He wants us to be worshipers!

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It Is Tortoise’s Shell, Ugly And Hard That Protects Its Life Long Journey On Earth

Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

When the Lord in mercy drew near and saw us in our deadness, He first of all said, “Live”; and He did this, first, because life is absolutely essential in spiritual matters, and until it is given we are incapable of seeing or entering the kingdom. Now the life that grace confers upon believers at the moment of their conversion is none other than the life of Christ, which, like the sap from the stem, runs into us, the branches, and establishes a living connection between our souls and Jesus. Faith is the grace that perceives this union, having proceeded from it as its first fruit. It is the neck that joins the body of the Church to its all-glorious Head.

A faith that shines more bright and clear,
When tempests rage without,
That when in danger knows no fear,
In darkness feels no doubt.

Faith lays hold upon the Lord Jesus with a firm and determined grasp. It knows His excellence and worth, and no temptation can induce faith to place its trust elsewhere. And Christ Jesus is so delighted with this heavenly grace that He never ceases to strengthen and sustain that faith by the loving embrace and all-sufficient support of His eternal arms.

This establishes a living, sensible, and delightful union that produces streams of love, confidence, sympathy, contentment, and joy, from which both the Bride and Bridegroom love to drink. When the soul can clearly see this oneness between itself and Christ, the pulse may be felt as beating for both, and the one blood as flowing through the veins of each. Then the heart is as near heaven as it can be on earth and is prepared for the enjoyment of the most sublime and spiritual kind of fellowship.

Lord, give me such a faith as this,
And then, whatever may come,
I taste even now the hallowed bliss,
Of an eternal home.

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