November 28th — THE BOUNTY OF THE DESTITUTE
November 28th.THE BOUNTY OF THE DESTITUTE
"Being justified freely by His grace. . ." Romans 3:24
The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equal y intense resentment, because the revelation which it brings is not palatable. There is a certain pride in man that wil give and give, but to come and accept is another thing. I wil give my life to martyrdom, I wil give myself in consecration, I wil do anything, but do not humiliate me to the level of the most hel -deserving sinner and tel me that al I have to do is to accept the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ.
We have to realize that we cannot earn or win anything from God; we must either receive it as a gift or do without it. The greatest blessing spiritual y is the knowledge that we are destitute; until we get there Our Lord is powerless. He can do nothing for us if we think we are sufficient of ourselves, we have to enter into His Kingdom through the door of destitution. As long as we are rich, possessed of anything in the way of pride or independence, God cannot do anything for us. It is only when we get hungry spiritual y that we receive the Holy Spirit. The gift of the essential nature of God is made effectual in us by the Holy Spirit, He imparts to us the quickening life of Jesus, which puts "the beyond" within, and immediately "the beyond" has come within, it rises up to "the above," and we are lifted into the domain where Jesus lives. (John 3:5.)