I've been doing some soul searching - something everyone should do on a regular basis, I've determined. I found something of such power, I have to share it.
This is from Streams in the Desert by Charles E. Cowman
"Nothing shall be impossible unto you" (Matt.
17:20).
It is possible, for those who really are willing
to reckon on the power of the Lord for keeping
and victory, to lead a life in which His promises
are taken as they stand and are found to be true.
It is possible to cast all our care upon Him
daily and to enjoy deep peace in doing it.
It is possible to have the thoughts and
imaginations of our hearts purified, in the
deepest meaning of the word.
It is possible to see the will of God in
everything, and to receive it, not with sighing,
but with singing.
It is possible by taking complete refuge in
Divine power to become strong through and
through; and, where previously our greatest
weakness lay, to find that things which formerly
upset all our resolves to be patient, or pure, or
humble, furnish today an opportunity--through Him
who loved us, and works in us an agreement with
His will and a blessed sense of His presence and
His power--to make sin powerless over us.
These things are DIVINE POSSIBILITIES, and
because they are His work, the true experience of
them will always cause us to bow lower at His
feet and to learn to thirst and long for more.
We cannot possibly be satisfied with anything
less--each day, each hour, each moment, in
Christ, through the power of the Holy
Spirit--than to WALK WITH GOD. --H. C. G. Moule
We may have as much of God as we will. Christ
puts the key of the treasure-chamber into our
hand, and bids us take all that we want. If a man
is admitted into the bullion vault of a bank, and
told to help himself, and comes out with one
cent, whose fault is it that he is poor? Whose
fault is it that Christian people generally have
such scanty portions of the free riches of God?
--McLaren.
I love it when God uses something to drive a point home, unlooked for by me of course. It's some of these words that capture my attention:
KEEP. I know God keeps me from falling into utter ruin apart from His eternal presence. Knowing, and experiencing it to it's fullness is the point here.
He can purify the thoughts and intents of my heart. selah. (that means pause and deeply consider). He wants to purify my intentions, not just understand them and give me what's better for me. wow.
To experience the fullness of God. A desire I keep forgetting to ask for and to have my hands open fully to receive. He has such great things for me, and I don't remember to ask and expect.
Soul seaching can be painful. But it surely yields much fruit!
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