acting on the truths of God

It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual--you cannot act for him. It must be his own deliberate act, but the Gospel should always lead him to action. Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where He was previously. But once he acts, he is never the same.

When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will...not necessarily externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood--work it into your life.

The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is liberated the second he acts and God's almighty power is available on his behalf. We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again. Then we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no business going back.

If we act and come to Him, the dominating power of the world, the flesh, and the devil is now paralyzed; not by your act, but because your act has joined you to God and tapped you into His redemptive power.

This is such a good word for me this morning from O. Chambers, exposing once again that I am a "saver"...always bending over backwards and trying to the utmost degree to help people avoid or be saved from hurt or hardship, when in reality I may be robbing people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. How often am I "sparing" my kiddos a work that the Father wants to lovingly do in them? How often am I padding a friend from a refining He wants to allow in their lives?

What is "the truth of God" He is currently bringing home to your soul? To my soul? Are we allowing it to "pass on" without acting, recording it, working it in? What truths of God are we now barely noticing, because we have circled and abandoned so many previously?

It is popular to talk about intentionality, but are we intentional when it comes to following His convictions and burning our bridges, no turning back, no common-sense reasoned?

"The weakest saint"--surely that is me--"is liberated the moment he acts and God's almighty power is available on his behalf."

What are His truths for you today, for me...and are we bound by them, painfully re-configuring our lives by them? Are we attempting to just slap them on, add them in, to our pile of theologies and lifestyles and choices, or are we dropping our own truths at the feet of Jesus and taking up only His?

This is what drawing near to God requires...IS my ACTING today joining me to God, and bringing me into His redemptive power?

whew.