I hadn’t realized that while I thought I’d been upholding our relationship in the past, it was God doing the work in me all along-in His strength, my weakness was made perfect. When it came to my relationship with God, I found myself believing that I would have to sustain it on my own. “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever” (Eph 3:20–21 ESV).Īs a young mother, I often found it difficult to find time for a devotional with God. What matters it if we appear to be inconsistent, so long as we keep to the highway of Scripture, which is our only safe road to knowledge!Īngels may, perhaps, be systematic divines for men it should be enough to follow the word of God, let its teachings wind as they may. If we honestly desire to gain the heights of divine truth, we shall find many zigzags in the road: here our face will front divine sovereignty with all its lofty grandeur, and anon we shall turn in the opposite direction, towards the frowning peaks of human responsibility. Nobody called us inconsistent for thus facing about we kept the road, and no one could complain. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” -Matthew 7:13–14įirst to the right, then to the left, the road was ever ascending but always twisting, and thus, by easy marches, we were able to reach the summit of the pass a straight line would have been shorter for the eagle’s wing, but no human foot could have followed it. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. A dapted from Bible Study Magazine and Logos Bible Software. Pray that you will be given the eyes to see and the ears to hear how He is changing the human condition. By studying His Word we can see what He has done and what He will do. The effect is so electric that observers thought the disciples were drunk. In this scene from Acts 2, the Spirit explodes onto the disciples. The story of the Church is astonishing and intense. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance” (Acts 2:1–4 ESV). And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. " When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
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