February
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If another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. (Galatians 6:1 NLT)
If really we have come
to any kind of spiritual appreciation of the greatness of the thing the Lord
has done for us in the Cross – brought us into His own fullness and subdued all
our enemies – we cannot be a mean people, we cannot be small and petty, we must
be generous because of the greatness of our position in Christ. It simply works
out in this way: the larger our apprehension of what the Lord has done for us
in His Cross, the more generous we ought to be to others – the more
longsuffering and forbearing, the less ready to quickly return evil for evil,
more ready to bear and to suffer wrong. It must be a very limited apprehension
of Calvary when we very swiftly snap at one another for things that we feel are
wrong. There has to be a very great deal of overlooking, a great deal of
generosity, grace has got to triumph by reason of the exalted spiritual place:
the elevation of our position in the heavenlies. These cities must rule, grace
must predominate in the
heavenlies.
There is provision made
for mistakes, even when you get to the heavenlies in Christ. It does not look
like sinless perfection. It does not look as though all the faults and the
mistakes and the blunders and the injuries have ended, even when you come into
the heavenlies. It looks as though grace will still be necessary to bear with
things that go wrong. There must be some wrong, then, even when we get
spiritually to that position. The Lord says that there is grace for that.
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