Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women
but to be proclaimers of the gospel of God.
The one all-important thing is:
the Gospel of God should be recognized as THE abiding reality.
Reality is Not:
human goodness, holiness, heaven, hell.
It is redemption.
The need to perceive this is the most vital need for the Christian worker today.
We have to get used to the idea that redemption is the only reality.
We fail if we place our desire for our own holiness above our desire to know God.
God cannot deliver us when our interest is in merely our own character.
We cannot be conscious of ourselves...
but recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered and separated by God for ONE purpose--
to proclaim the Gospel of God.
O. Chambers
I was just reading this to Sharon this morning!! I was thinking of claiming it as my own thoughts, but now she knows!
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