Aiden Wilson T. "Everything is made to center upon the initial act of 'accepting' Christ (a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible) and we are not expected thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls." |
"We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we found Him we need no more seek Him. |
"I want deliberately to encourage a mighty longing after God. |
"Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people." |
"He waits to be wanted." ~A.W.Tozer (The Pursuit of God) |
1 John 3:18-20 "Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. |
This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in His presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything." |
It's very easy to say you love someone. Even to tell God you love Him. |
But words alone can't keep a relationship living; we have to have a love alive with actions and alive in truth. We all know fleeting, flawed, and broken 'love'; what enduring love is there? |
A silent kind of love, an invisible love, the love that affords us the ability to sacrifice even when no one will ever know it. |
It's a love we don't own; something we weren't born with. And yet some possess it. |
Some belong to it, and live by it. This enduring love comes from God. |
Because before we can ever achieve being someone who loves, we must receive this new identity from the only One who gives it, God. He gives Himself. |
First He imputes us with His love, and then, slowly, we find it welling up from within our new selves: a new heart, because somehow the deepest part of ourselves has been redeemed. |
Somehow beyond me, He saves our souls . . . because of His love. Because it's who He is. |
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