FOCUS OF GRACIOUS SOULS
Things that gracious souls discover are: 1. To “hope to be better” is to fail to see yourself in Christ only. 2. To be disappointed with yourself, is to have believed in yourself. 3. To be discouraged is unbelief, – as to God’s purpose and plan of blessing for you. 4. To be proud, is to be blind! For we have no standing before God, in ourselves. 5. The lack of Divine blessing, therefore, comes from unbelief, and not from failure of devotion. 6. Real devotion to God arises, not from man’s will to show it, but from the discovery that blessing has been received from God while we were yet unworthy and undevoted. To preach devotion first, and blessing second, is to reverse God’s order, and preach law, not grace. The Law made man’s blessing depend on devotion; Grace confers undeserved, unconditional blessing: our devotion may follow, but does not always do so, – in proper measure.
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