April 17th — NECK OR NOTHING
April 17th.NECK OR NOTHING
"Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him . . . and did cast himself into the sea." John 21:7
Have you ever had a crisis in which you deliberately and emphatical y and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of wil . You may come up to it many times external y, but it amounts to nothing. The real deep crisis of abandonment is reached internal y, not external y. The giving up of external things may be an indication of being in total bondage.
Have you deliberately committed your wil to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of wil , not of emotion; the emotion is simply the gilt-edge of the transaction. If you al ow emotion first, you wil never make the transaction. Do not ask God what the transaction is to be, but make it in regard to the thing you do see, either in the shal ow or the profound place.
If you have heard Jesus Christ's voice on the bil ows, let your convictions go to the winds, let your consistency go to the winds, but maintain your relationship to Him.