07-15-2007, 02:06 AM
I N F I N I T E S U P P L Y
July 13, 2007
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Today's meditation is taken from:
BACK TO THE CROSS
by Chip Brogden
http://theschoolofchrist.org/articles/back.html
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"Not my will, but Your Will, be done" (Luke 22:42b).
The Cross demonstrates that we do not gain by trying to get, but by
losing in order to gain. We cannot really receive from God until we
have learned to give up unto God. It is the spirit which cries, "Not
my will, but Thine be done" and "Father, into Thine Hand I commit my
spirit."
These words are easily uttered, but we cannot appreciate them or
really experience them until we have been through our Gethsemane
experiences and our Golgotha experiences. Until that time we are
merely reciting some words, but we do not truly know what it means to
give ourselves up to God, to be completely consecrated and submitted
to Him. The Cross prepares us to receive by first forcing us to give
up. Therefore, the Cross is gaining through losing.
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©2007 TheSchoolOfChrist.Org. Permission is granted for
non-commercial (free) distribution provided this notice appears.
July 13, 2007
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Today's meditation is taken from:
BACK TO THE CROSS
by Chip Brogden
http://theschoolofchrist.org/articles/back.html
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
"Not my will, but Your Will, be done" (Luke 22:42b).
The Cross demonstrates that we do not gain by trying to get, but by
losing in order to gain. We cannot really receive from God until we
have learned to give up unto God. It is the spirit which cries, "Not
my will, but Thine be done" and "Father, into Thine Hand I commit my
spirit."
These words are easily uttered, but we cannot appreciate them or
really experience them until we have been through our Gethsemane
experiences and our Golgotha experiences. Until that time we are
merely reciting some words, but we do not truly know what it means to
give ourselves up to God, to be completely consecrated and submitted
to Him. The Cross prepares us to receive by first forcing us to give
up. Therefore, the Cross is gaining through losing.
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©2007 TheSchoolOfChrist.Org. Permission is granted for
non-commercial (free) distribution provided this notice appears.