Obedience

April 18, 2012

No one whose senses have been exercised to know good and evil but must grieve over the sight of zealous souls seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit while they are yet living in a state of moral carelessness or borderline sin. Such a things is a moral contradiction. Whoever would be filled and indwell by the Spirit should first judge his life for any hidden iniquities; he should courageously expel from his heart everything which is out of accord with the character of God as revealed by the Holy Scriptures.

– AW Tozer –

April 17, 2012

That’s the excitement in obedience – finding out later what God had in mind.

– Brother Andrew –
from God’s Smuggler, page 101

April 10, 2012

The world cries for men who are strong: strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray you will be that kind of man, glad that God made you a man, glad to shoulder the burden of manliness in a time when to do so will often bring contempt.

– Elisabeth Elliot –

April 9, 2012

Keep as far as you can from those temptations that feed and strengthen the sins which you would overcome. Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out, by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

– Richard Baxter –

April 7, 2012

God never asks us to do anything we can do. He asks us to live a life which we can never live and to do a work which we can never do. . . . Self is the only obstruction to that life and to that work. May we each one pray from our hearts: “O Lord, deal with me!”

– Watchman Nee –
from “Sit, Walk, Stand” page 69

April 2, 2012

How infinitely blessed it is to be entirely Christ’s. To think that you and I are never to have another care or another fear, but that Jesus has undertaken simply everything for us! And isn’t it grand to have the privilege of being His instruments? It does seem such loving condescension that He should use us.

– Francis Havergal –

April 1, 2012

Sometimes people talk about how they are “struggling with” certain things, or “working through” them, when what they really mean is that they are delaying obedience. “I have a problem with this,” they say, or, “I don’t feel comfortable with that yet,” meaning, “Who me? Disobedient?” . . . Obedience will very likely earn you nasty labels nowadays. There’s nothing new about that. Obedience has never been the route to popularity. The question is simply, who is your master?

– Elisabeth Elliot –

March 29, 2012

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life, that I may burn for Thee.

– Jim Elliot –

March 20, 2012

All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ’s demands.

– Oswald Chambers –