… save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

     — Galatians 6:14

If you want to know the energy of God (i.e., the resurrection life of
Jesus) in your mortal flesh, you must brood on the tragedy of God.
Cut yourself off from prying personal interest in your own spiritual
symptoms and consider bare-spirited the tragedy of God, and instantly
the energy of God will be in you. “Look unto Me,” pay attention to
the objective Source and the subjective energy will be there. We lose
power if we do not concentrate on the right thing. The effect of the
Cross is salvation, sanctification, healing, etc., but we are not to
preach any of these, we are to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
The proclaiming of Jesus will do its own work. Concentrate on God’s
centre in your preaching, and though your crowd may apparently pay no
attention, they can never be the same again. If I talk my own talk,
it is of no more importance to you than your talk is to me; but if I
talk the truth of God, you will meet it again and so will I. We have
to concentrate on the great point of spiritual energy – the Cross, to
keep in contact with that centre where all the power lies, and the
energy will be let loose. In holiness movements and spiritual
experience meetings the concentration is apt to be put not on the
Cross of Christ, but on the effects of the Cross.

The feebleness of the churches is being criticized to-day, and the
criticism is justified. One reason for the feebleness is that there
has not been this concentration of spiritual energy; we have not
brooded enough on the tragedy of Calvary or on the meaning of
Redemption.

On this day...

• Nehemiah 4 - 2023
• Nehemiah 3 - 2023
• Giving money is only one way of showing charity; to give time & toil is far better & (for most of us) harder - 2011
• If my heart is right with God, every human being is my neighbor. - 2011
• Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory. - 2011
• As the stones in an arch help to strengthen one another, one Christian by imparting his experience, heats and quickens another - 2011
• Psalm 80:5 (NIV) - 2011
• John Newton - From Disgrace to Amazing Grace - 2011
• Never support an experience which does not have God as its Source and faith in God as its result. - 2011
• if you really believe that Christ’s pov- erty has made you rich, what are those furrows doing on your brow? - 2011