Saturday, April 16, 2016

A Little Help 8

The Lord Jesus Christ is my All in All, and I am nobody. My sinful life cost Him His death, and His bloody death is my Life. He took my sins, and died; I take His Righteousness, and live. The world may laugh, but I will win. The ungodly may sneer, but I will sing. Come to Jesus, hide in Him, and then keep there. Never get an inch beyond the Cross. Let this be your motto - you nothing, and Christ everything. Sink lower, and lower, and lower in your own self-esteem; and let Christ's esteem rise higher, and higher, and higher.

Keep always at the foot of the Cross. Practice great watchfulness, walk circumspectly, and not as fools. Follow after righteousness and godliness, hate your sins for they killed Jesus Christ. Keep your word even when it is to your personal loss. Act gently to your spouse and children, fairly to your workmates, kindly to your subordinates, faithful to your superiors, uprightly to all. Be grieved when you err. Endeavor to guard your weak points - watch and pray - Watch against temptation, cry daily to God for strength to overcome your sins. Seek after peace of conscience through the blood of Christ, peace with God through communion with the Holy Ghost, and if it be possible, peace with all men.

Don't speak evil of others, don't cut others down. Be swift to hate your sins, and by the grace of God, be strong to repel your iniquities. View the bleeding Savior, and you will hate your sins intensely. Follow Christ practically in daily life. Be meek and merciful. Aim at purity of heart and the fear of the Lord. Keep to self-denial and separation from the world. Follow the narrow way. Use your utmost endeavor to keep yourself disinfected by the grace and blood of God. Keep close to the Savior. Keep up constant communication with the Lord. Follow the crimson way of the Precious Blood, the narrow way of secret pray, self-denial, and communion with the Holy Ghost. Seek the Holy Spirit's guidance and wisdom.

All sinful men must be justified by grace through faith in the Person and Blood of Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh. All the enmity of human nature is against that truth. Men want to be saved by their own morality, and by all sorts of things that they put in the place of salvation by grace through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ. Be wise, and cry to God to help you, cry for the Holy Spirit to enable you to lay hold on eternal life, and simply believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for immediate salvation. Now trust His blood alone (Romans 3:25; 5:9). You cannot save yourself, Christ is the Savior, it is His main business to save sinners. Put your guilty soul into hands of the Crucified and Risen Redeemer. He is the Savior, and He will save all sinners who trust Him. To trust Jesus at once is the wisest thing to do.

Rest in Christ more confidently, love God more earnestly, serve your generation more intensely, live while you live, play not at living, live in real earnest for Jesus Christ Himself. Earnestly cry to God for mercy, grace, and wisdom. Don't gossip and backbite. Look unto Christ, enjoy His presence, rejoice in Him intensely, find God everywhere, trace every blessing and trial to God, look to God for everything, take every care to His throne of Grace, and every petition to His mercy seat. Christ is All. Adorn the Gospel in all parts of your life privately and publicly, love others earnestly. Make it the one object of your life to make other people happy. Delight in God's worship. Seek Christ, and enjoy His eternal life.  Decide for God once and for all, thoroughly and intensely. Be very thorough in giving up your sins.

Let Gospel truth be thoroughly saturated in your being. Follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. Get the word of God deep into your soul, meditate on God's promises, get soaked with the Scriptures, and sprinkled with God's Blood. Ask the Lord to make your inward and outward life more pure and true. Let the Lord thoroughly examine your life. Heartily abhor and despair of yourself. Flee to Christ's Precious Blood for mercy and grace.

The Cross is the sole hope of real sinners. Read and hear the words of God attentively, constantly and intensely. Live for God, serve God, and glorify God. Ask sinners to come to Christ's Blood and to be reconciled to God forever through Jesus' finished work. Seek the kingdom of God always by prayer, by earnest faith in Jesus Christ. Always be an earnest pleader and suppliant. Wait intensely, insatiably for God, the living God. Make Jesus your All in All - give up forever self-seeking, forsake all desire to shine, all wishes to be great, all cravings to be rich, live henceforth not unto yourself, but unto Christ Jesus that died for us. Consent to be nothing for Jesus' sake. Just be nothing, and let Christ be everything, that is all.  The Cross Alone!