"Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings." 1 Peter 4:13 If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a multitude of experiences that are not meant for you at all, they are meant to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what transpires in other souls so that you will never be surprised at what you come across. Oh, I can't deal with that person. Why not? God gave you ample opportunity to soak before Him on that line, and you barged off because it seemed stupid to spend time in that way. The sufferings of Christ are not those of ordinary men. He suffered "according to the will of God," not from the point of view we suffer from as individuals. It is only when we are related to Jesus Christ that we can understand what God is after in His dealings with us. It is part of Christian culture to know what God's aim is. In the history of the Christian Church the tendency has been to evade being identified with the sufferings of Jesus Christ; men have sought to procure the carrying out of God's order by a short cut of their own. God's way is always the way of suffering, the way of the "long, long trail." Are we partakers of Christ's sufferings? Are we prepared for God to stamp our personal ambitions right out? Are we prepared for God to destroy by transfiguration our individual determinations? It will not mean that we know exactly why God is taking us that way, that would make us spiritual prigs. We never realize at the time what God is putting us through; we go through it more or less misunderstandingly; then we come to a luminous place, and say - ' 'Why, God has girded me, though I did not know it!" | ||
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Eighteen Percent Plus
The most famous quote from perhaps the world's most famous quoter of others, Charlie "Tremendous" Jones, is: "You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things, the people with whom you associate and the books you read." Jones's passion in life was getting others to read in order to improve themselves. You can go to his website www.TremendousJones.com and find great suggested reading lists.
One of Jones's favorite books was Oswald Chambers's My Utmost for His Highest, the best selling devotional of all time by the way. Jones had memorize the November 5th devotional. It is appropriate to share it with you this Easter week.
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Bro. Phil,
Thanks for the insightful articles. You recently asked how to add your blog to facebook...it's pretty easy I think.
Open your facebook; along the bottom is a button labeled notes when you hover over it. Click on that button and on the right side of the page is a link to import blog. Hope this helps meld your blog and facebook...would that make it a faceblog?
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