08/30
We are in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses, . . . By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. 2 Corinthians 6: 4, 8-10
Servant of Christ
A Christian is a servant of Christ. He or she is dead to one's self; but Christ lives within him or her instead. Thus a Christian is not a person of discipline, not a person of will, not a person of meditation, but a person of heart. Yea, he or she is a person of purified heart. Therefore, to the church, he or she may appear too wayward; to the ethicist immoral; to the philosophers ignorant. But he or she is a person of freedom as well as of self-discipline, a person of will as well as of heart, and a scholar as well as a poet. A Christian is a person in whom Christ alone lives and works.
08/31
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor Philippians 1:21
My Religion
I do not work; I believe. I do not pray; I believe. I do not sanctify myself; I believe. I do not prepare myself for heaven; I believe. Faith is believing in God's mercy and in the sacrificial death of His Son. Faith makes me work and pray; it sanctifies me and prepares me for heaven. My religion is all faith. There is no effort in it except it be an effort to believe. The Lord Jesus Christ is my wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30). He is my all. Indeed, for me to live is Christ. I by my faith let Him live and work in me, and myself become a believing one, a fit instrument of righteousness in His hand. All is so simple and so good.
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