The carnal man's imagination is his damnable inspiration. Human ability is nothing more than puffed up inability. Human nature makes a god out of its own thoughts; man's thoughts of who God is are far from being correct. Please remain conscious of your own incompetence and inability. The person who does things without Christ will end up doing absolutely nothing in the long run. The man who preaches without the Holy Spirit's divine aid cannot help anyone at all. Human ability without the grace of God is a vain show.
The natural man lives to please himself, gratify his flesh, and is mostly concerned his own self-preservation, greed and health. The Soul without is always miserably deluded and wretched. Self-sufficiency is inefficiency. Carnal fancies, worldly glory and frivolities, human honors, useless amusements, vain conceits and self-reliance are only empty chaff. The Soul who thinks little of sin, thinks little of Christ.
The fulness of Self is double emptiness. Human nature is formed by culture and custom, ruled by the fear of man and observation, restrained by selfish ulterior motives, governed by the love of human approbation. Worldlings prize and cling to their vain, temporal toys. Gossip is a sin which picks holes in everybody and everything. The carnal wise man attempts to set up his own imaginations as truth. The world's god is a god who has no justice or righteousness, their god takes sin lightly, and does not hold man accountable for sinning. The person who God truly uses will be so emptied out, that he will wonder how God could ever use him in the least degree.
The natural man minds earthly things. Carnal wisdom and legal effort is vanity. Only the Holy Spirit can draw you away from sinful pleasures and self-righteousness. The Soul without Christ is bewitched with folly. Worldlings do not want anyone disturbing their conscience, interfering with their dirty habits and deadly addictions, or dislodging their selfishness. The filthy lusts of this present evil world only lead to unclean passion, filthy desire, and the grieving of the Holy Spirit.
Sin is a deadly inward plague, a constant threat and burden. Your sins pervert your judgment, pollute your imagination, and cripple your strength. Seek peace with God through the Precious Blood of Christ. Lean all your Soul's weight on the Person of Christ Jesus and His Precious Blood. Beware of a dead faith which doesn't look to Christ as the Propitiation and Atonement for human sin. Believe heartily in JESUS as the Propitiation for your sins. Come to the Lamb of God at once and by faith personally lay your hand on Christ and let Him take your sins away by identification, confession, acceptance, and transference. By faith grasp JESUS CHRIST with a simple childlike faith in HIM alone.
Simply be a truster in God, a believer in Jesus, and a dependent upon the Holy Spirit. Calm Resignation and Full submission to the will of God. Entire submission to the Righteousness of Christ, Sweet delight in God's will, walking in the Spirit tenderly, submissively, and quietly. Cheerful submission to the Father's divine discipline. Gladly bear ill treatment, slander, ridicule, insult, and injury without resentment, revenge or retaliation.
JESUS should always be in our thoughts, desires, intents, spirit and Soul. Filthy, arrogant, obsene, boastful, cruel, slanderous, unreliable, deceptive, unchaste, impure words should not come from the mouth of a child of God. The quitting of Self, the abhorrence of sins, the clinging to the LORD. Lay hold upon God's words, and cling to the Person of Christ by Faith. Regrets for sinning, desires after His holiness, trustings in Christ, hoping in His mercies. Showing a long face, pining over your troubles, grumbling over self-pity, disputing over nonsense, and whining over your losses - this never honors God the Father. Domestic cares, endless chores, bodily pains, and daily frets never end.
Is what you are doing consistent with the will of God and pleasing to Christ? Your Soul needs eternal mercies more than time mercies. Cry out sincerely to God for inward purity. Attempts after holiness, longings to overcome sins, sighings for deliverance from inward corruption. Loathing and grieving over your Sins, and confessing and forsaking your Sins. Be sick and tired of Sin, and loathe selfishness. Make JESUS CHRIST the center and master of every situation you may encounter, seek Him and plead with him in that capacity. JESUS constrains us with His mighty Love, leads us in golden fetters, as joyful captives of His wonderful Grace. Behold JESUS' great Love, and how He stooped to become Sin for us, to become a Curse for us on the Cross.
