I haven't posted anything for almost three weeks now! So seeing that, along with so many other things going on lately, I decided that the title for this blog is quite fitting...
I recently just finished reading through "Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret". Hands down, one of the greatest and most powerful books I've ever read. If anyone out there wants a book that will challenge them immensely in their faith and walk with God, this is the book for you! I wasn't even reading it to be challenged! I was reading it because I have to read it for Missions class! But, as soon as I was just a few pages in, I was sucked into an inspiring tale of the awesome steadfast faithfulness of God! No doubt...
My prayer life has been immensely challenged as of late. Partially because of the Spirit speaking through this book on Taylor and partly because the Lord speaks in so many varying ways to get His Word across. : ). Everything, I suppose, is being challenged as of late! lol. I thank you all for your prayers and I assure you that no matter my incompetence and inadequacies, God is being glorified!
Oh, the Grace of God! Jesus has become a "bright reality" in my life as never before. It is our wretchedness and desperation for Christ that we must pray for. It is a place of humility where, in revelation of the glory and greatness of Christ, we stand undone, naked and impoverished before God! We must pray that God would reveal to us His absolute and complete holiness! In the consciousness of His presence we will fall flat on our faces in utter despondency and recognition of just how far short we stand, just how unfaithful we are in sight of His loving perfection…But! Ah! This is the place we need to pray to be! for it is at this place that the light of the gospel floods brightest! O how radiant and how glorious is our God and the light of the Gospel message when we realize the darkness of our souls! Do we fully understand that God expects us to fall though He has paid the price of the blood of His Son to stand us aright!? Oh the immeasurable depths of the love of our Savior! Trust this day in the sovereignty of our King and the finished work of Christ on the cross. In all of our striving to be pleasing to the Lord we must understand that the only way God is pleased is through faith. The only way we can carry on about this Christian life is through continual faith in the finished work of Christ for our sins. The source of all joy, the source of all love must come from the foot of the cross where we trust Christ completely for our right standing before God. Condemnation is unbelief, may we stop dead in our tracks every day and put our faith back in the finished work of Christ. Can we expect to love if we deceive ourselves into believing God to be upset with us? Can the love of Christ flow from a life that accepts not the grace of God upon Calvary’s Cross, but instead seeks to “do good things” to please a perfectly Holy God!?
I realize now that I have become no better man over the time of my life as a believer, simply that I have begun to trust God at His word. The only thing I’ve done is the one thing that isn’t an action! Haha. And that is the God that we need to learn to know. The one who requires nothing of us but our trust in Him. He asks nothing of us but that we would believe Him and allow Him to be the Lord of our lives.
Ah! God is good, neh? : D
And yet, with all of this I need so much more! Oh that the reality of His presence might be emboldened in our lives each and every day!
Pray for me brothers and sisters...
To God be all the glory no doubt!
-Aaron
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