March
28
It
pleased God… to reveal His Son in me (Galatians 1:15,16).
If Christ, the Son of
God’s love, is central and supreme in the heart of the believer, so much else
goes down -- it must go down. Controversies with God will divide, but those
artificial things, those things resultant from man’s activity and his
projecting of himself, insinuating of himself into the interests of God, those
things cannot abide where there is an adequate inward revelation of the Lord
Jesus; they cannot be.
These two things are before us: one, because of the
revelation of Jesus Christ in our hearts we have a passion for Him; on the
other hand, because of the absence of a sufficient revelation of Christ in our
hearts we are out for other things which we would say are in His interests, and
for Him, but which can never, never satisfy God’s heart. It is the satisfaction
of the heart of the Father, which is in view.
Beloved, I am speaking about the
individual. I am not justified, and you are not justified, in claiming to be
Christians except in the measure in which Christ is manifested in me, in you;
and all the force and weight and ingenuity of hell is out against that.
Believers have far more to provoke them to un-Christ-likeness than anyone else
in the world. Believers have far more assaults to churn them up and to make
them betray Christ than anyone else. Hell is dead set against the revelation of
Jesus Christ. Everything begins with this, the revelation of Jesus Christ
within.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: The Centrality and Supremacy
of Christ
This painting by Claudia Wood Rahm is called The True Vine.
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