Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience
     of Christ.

     — 2 Corinthians 10:5

This is another aspect of the strenuous nature of sainthood. Paul
says, “I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ.”
(Moffatt.) How much Christian work there is to-day which has never
been disciplined, but has simply sprung into being by impulse! In Our
Lord’s life every project was disciplined to the will of His Father.
There was not a movement of an impulse of His own will as distinct
from His Father’s – “The Son can do nothing of Himself.” Then take
ourselves – a vivid religious experience, and every project born of
impulse put into action immediately, instead of being imprisoned and
disciplined to obey Christ.

This is a day when practical work is overemphasized, and the saints
who are bringing every project into captivity are criticized and told
that they are not in earnest for God or for souls. True earnestness
is found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him that is
born of undisciplined human nature. It is inconceivable, but true
nevertheless, that saints are not bringing every project into
captivity, but are doing work for God at the instigation of their own
human nature which has not been spiritualized by determined
discipline.

We are apt to forget that a man is not only committed to Jesus Christ
for salvation; he is committed to Jesus Christ’s view of God, of the
world, of sin and of the devil, and this will mean that he must
recognize the responsibility of being transformed by the renewing of
his mind.

On this day...

• Revelation 4 - 2023
• Revelation 2 - 2023
• Malachi 2:4–9 - 2015
• Malachi 2:5 - 2014
• Building on the Rock of Ages - 2011
• TRUE SAINTS, WHEN ABSENT FROM THE BODY, ARE PRESENT WITH THE LORD - 2009
• God's Sovereignty in the Salvation of Men - 2009
• Peculiar people - 2008
• A Saint In Embryo - 2008
• THE OFFERING OF THE NATURAL - 2008