July 7, 2008

Living each day in deliberate dependence on God is an exhilarating experience.

    Are you unemployed?

    Or does a big company pay you a high salary?

    In either case, you are totally, helplessly dependent on God.  But it will make an enormous difference in your life if you realize it, enjoy it, and with confidence “live on the cutting edge” because of it!

    “Faith is the substance of things hoped for,” says Hebrews 11:1.  Substance!  This is bedrock stuff!  Faith rests on the invisible Rock of Ages, the one great Reality, Jesus Christ.

    I love the words of A.W. Tozer,

“Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of  Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications…. Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it.  Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any  second way or makeshift substitutes.  For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.  And not since Adam first stood up on the earth has God failed a single man or woman who trusted Him.” (The Root of Righteous, Christian Publications, Harrisburg, PA, 1955, pp. 49, 50.)

    Actually, this kind of “faithing it” renews you, refreshes you, and steps up your courage.  Trusting Him is not a tranquilizer, it’s a stimulant!

    God is going places.
   
    Trust Him; join Him.

    Turn a corner!





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