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Daily
Devotional Reading from
My
Utmost for His Highest
by
Oswald Chambers:
November
12
The
transfigured life
If
any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new.
2Co_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 1Co_13:1-13,
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.
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