1 Corinthians 12:12-14
For as the body is one
and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one
body -- so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one
body -- whether Jew s or Greeks --whether slaves or free -- and have all
been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but
many.
…Not only is Jesus Christ
identified with my sin, but I am identified with Him so that His ruling
disposition is in me, and the moral transaction on my part is agreement with
God’s verdict on sin in the Cross of Jesus….As long as a man has morality well
within his own grasp, Jesus Christ does not amount to anything to him, but when
a man get to his wits’ end by agony and says involuntarily, “My God, what am I
up against? There is something underneath I never knew was there,” he begins to
pay attention to what Jesus Christ says. A moral preparation is necessary
before we can believe; truth is a moral vision and does not exist for a man
until he sees it. There is a moral frontier outside which Jesus Christ does not
tell, but when once we get over that frontier, He becomes all in all. God takes
us through circumstances until we enter the moral frontiers where Jesus Christ
tells. When you come to your wits’ end, remember there is a way out, namely,
personal relationship to God through the Redemption of Jesus Christ.
Excerpts from Oswald
Chambers
Daily Devotional Bible,
Reading 245 (9/2)
From The Shadow of an Agony
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