May 14, 2009

Devotional : Owned by the Lord

"You are not your own."- 1Co_6:19

 

 There is a blessed sense in these words,"You are not your own."Remember you must be someone's. If God is not your master, the devil will be; if grace does not rule, sin will reign; if Christ is not your all in all, the world will be. It is not as though we could roam abroad in perfect liberty. Someone will have us. We must have a master of one kind or another; and which is best, a bounteous benevolent Benefactor such as God has ever shown himself to be; a merciful, loving, and tender Parent; a kind, forgiving Father and Friend; and a tender-hearted, compassionate Redeemer, able to save us to the uttermost; or a cruel devil, a miserable world, and a wicked, vile, abominable heart?

 

Which is better, to live under the sweet constraints of the dying love of a dear Redeemer; under gospel influences, gospel principles, gospel promises, and gospel encouragements; or to walk in imagined liberty, with sin in our heart, exercising dominion and mastery there; and binding us in iron chains to the judgment of the great day?

 

 Even taking the present life, there is more real pleasure, satisfaction, and happiness in half an hour with God, in sweet union and communion with the Lord of life and glory, in reading his Word with a believing heart, in finding access to his sacred presence, in knowing something of the droppings in of his favor and mercy -- there is more solid happiness in half an hour thus spent in the real service of God, than in all the delights of sin, all the lusts of the flesh, all the pride of life, and all the amusements that the world has ever devised to kill time and cheat self, thinking, by a death-bed repentance, at last to cheat the devil.

 

PS: Friends – I have been disconnected from the online world for a while. While I hope I do get back the internet, I feel quite sad because I have not been able to write regularly.

It has been a wonderful time for me – I have been reading on the beautiful topics of the holy spirit , the baptism of the holy spirit and the topics of holy living after you have received the promise of salvation (and how the holy spirit helps us in the process). Hope God opens his mysteries to me!!

2 comments:

  1. Welcome back Thomas! He did pay quite a price for us! Sounds wierd, but He made me free to be a bondservant of Him! Some people just don't get it, I think the god of this age(their worldly gods that bind them) has blinded them.

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  2. Rev 1:3 Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

    Please, visit to:
    http://thewordofgodistheswordofthespirit.blogspot.com/

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