I've been reading Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray, and it's piercing my heart with every chapter I read.
These are some of the things that really stood out to me in a chapter called
IMPOSSIBLE WITH MAN, POSSIBLE WITH GOD
"Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” - Luke 18:27
Many Christians are living a low life, a life of failure and of sin, instead of rest and victory, because they began to see: "I can't, it's impossible." They don't understand it fully and they give way to despair. They will do their best but they never expect to get on very far.
Not only do we need to delight in the law of God after the inward man, and will what God wills, but we need a divine omnipotence to work it in us. "For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose." - Philippians 2:13
When God has worked the renewed will, God will give the power to accomplish what that will desires.
Our religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by God's almighty power. We need the whole God's omnipotence to keep us right and to live like a Christian.
The whole Christianity is a work of God's omnipotence - look at Jesus' birth (With God nothing is impossible - Luke 1:37), Jesus' resurrection... It was according to the exceeding greatness of His mighty power that God raised Christ from the dead. Look at creation of the world, creation of light out of darkness, creation of man.
What about God's omnipotence in the works of redemption? God trained Abraham to trust Him as the omnipotent One; whether it was his going out to a land that he didn't know, or whether it was his faith in waiting 25 years for a son in his old age, against all hope, or whether it was the raising up of Isaac from the dead on Mount Moriah when he was going to sacrifice him - Abraham believed God. He was strong in faith, giving glory to God, because he accounted Him who had promised able to perform.
The cause of the weakness of our Christian life is that we want to work it out partly, and to let God help us. And that cannot be. We must come to be utterly helpless, to let God work, and God will work gloriously. Moses, Joshua... all God's servants in the OT counted upon the omnipotence of God doing impossibilities. And this God lives today!
I can do nothing. God must + will do all.
Let our hearts say, "Glory to God, the Omnipotent One, who can do above what we dare to ask or think!"
Never pray without adoring His omnipotence. The answer to the prayer will come, and like Abraham you will become strong in faith, giving glory to God, because you account Him who had promised able to perform.
These are some of the things that really stood out to me in a chapter called
IMPOSSIBLE WITH MAN, POSSIBLE WITH GOD
"Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” - Luke 18:27
Many Christians are living a low life, a life of failure and of sin, instead of rest and victory, because they began to see: "I can't, it's impossible." They don't understand it fully and they give way to despair. They will do their best but they never expect to get on very far.
Not only do we need to delight in the law of God after the inward man, and will what God wills, but we need a divine omnipotence to work it in us. "For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose." - Philippians 2:13
When God has worked the renewed will, God will give the power to accomplish what that will desires.
Our religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by God's almighty power. We need the whole God's omnipotence to keep us right and to live like a Christian.
The whole Christianity is a work of God's omnipotence - look at Jesus' birth (With God nothing is impossible - Luke 1:37), Jesus' resurrection... It was according to the exceeding greatness of His mighty power that God raised Christ from the dead. Look at creation of the world, creation of light out of darkness, creation of man.
What about God's omnipotence in the works of redemption? God trained Abraham to trust Him as the omnipotent One; whether it was his going out to a land that he didn't know, or whether it was his faith in waiting 25 years for a son in his old age, against all hope, or whether it was the raising up of Isaac from the dead on Mount Moriah when he was going to sacrifice him - Abraham believed God. He was strong in faith, giving glory to God, because he accounted Him who had promised able to perform.
The cause of the weakness of our Christian life is that we want to work it out partly, and to let God help us. And that cannot be. We must come to be utterly helpless, to let God work, and God will work gloriously. Moses, Joshua... all God's servants in the OT counted upon the omnipotence of God doing impossibilities. And this God lives today!
I can do nothing. God must + will do all.
Let our hearts say, "Glory to God, the Omnipotent One, who can do above what we dare to ask or think!"
Never pray without adoring His omnipotence. The answer to the prayer will come, and like Abraham you will become strong in faith, giving glory to God, because you account Him who had promised able to perform.
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