Perfect Willingness

Monday, September 20, 2010

Faith's Check Book, Daily Entry

C. H. Spurgeon

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September 20

Perfect Willingness

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. (Psalm 110:3)

Blessed be the God of grace that it is so! He has a people whom He has chosen from of old to be His peculiar portion. These by nature have wills as stubborn as the rest of the froward sons of Adam; but when the day of His power comes and grace displays its omnipotence, they become willing to repent and to believe in Jesus. None are saved unwillingly, but the will is made sweetly to yield itself. What a wondrous power is this, which never violates the will and yet rules it! God does not break the lock, but He opens it by a master key which He alone can handle.

Now are we willing to be, to do, or to suffer as the Lord wills. If at any time we grow rebellious, He has but to come to us with power, and straightway we run in the way of His commands with all our hearts. May this be a day of power with me as to some noble effort for the glory of God and the good of my fellowmen! Lord, I am willing; may I not hope that this is a day of Thy power? I am wholly at Thy disposal; willing, yea, eager, to be used of Thee for Thy holy purposes. O Lord, let me not have to cry, "To will is present with me, but how to perform that which I would, I find not"; but give me power as Thou givest me will.

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			But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
			But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
			For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
			Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
			These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
			But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned
			But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no on
			For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

                                                                                1 Corinthinas 2:9-16

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