If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old
     things are passed away; behold, all things are become
     new.

     — 2 Corinthians 5:17

What idea have you of the salvation of your soul? The experience of
salvation means that in your actual life things are really altered,
you no longer look at things as you used to; your desires are new,
old things have lost their power. One of the touchstones of
experience is – Has God altered the thing that matters? If you still
hanker after the old things, it is absurd to talk about being born
from above, you are juggling with yourself. If you are born again,
the Spirit of God makes the alteration manifest in your actual life
and reasoning, and when the crisis comes you are the most amazed
person on earth at the wonderful difference there is in you. There is
no possibility of imagining that you did it. It is this complete and
amazing alteration that is the evidence that you are a saved soul.

What difference has my salvation and sanctification made? For
instance, can I stand in the light of 1 Corinthians 13, or do I have
to shuffle? The salvation that is worked out in me by the Holy Ghost
emancipates me entirely, and as long as I walk in the light as God is
in the light, He sees nothing to censure because His life is working
out in every particular, not to my consciousness, but deeper than my
consciousness.

On this day...

• 2 Samuel 4 - 2023
• 2 Samuel 3 - 2023
• Ecclesiology can and must be measured - 2011
• Open your hands to God - 2011
• It doesn't take long before everyone knows - 2011
• Stir Your Mind - 2011
• 1 Peter 5 - 2011
• What Is the Recession For? Some of God's Purposes - 2009
• The Baby in My Womb Leaped for Joy - 2009
• Ecclesiastes 11:6 - 2008