"Let us bow before God in humility, and in that humility confess before Him the state of the whole Church. No words can tell the sad state of the Church of Christ on earth. I wish I had words to speak what I sometimes feel about it. just think of the Christians around you. I do not speak of nominal Christians, or of professing Christians, but I speak of hundreds and thousands of honest, earnest Christians who are not living a life in the power of God or to His glory. So little power, so little devotion or consecration to God, so little perception of the truth that a Christian is a man utterly surrendered to God's will! Oh, we want to confess the sins of God's people around us, and to humble ourselves. We are members of that sickly body, and the sickliness of the body will hinder us, and break us down, unless we come to God, and in confession separate ourselves from partnership with worldliness, with coldness toward each other, unless we give up ourselves to be entirely and wholly for God."
Love and prayers
A
4 comments:
Good stuff
Thanks for passing it on
Carol
the tendancy, often, is to bash the Bride of Christ, instead of connecting ourselves to Her, humbling ourselves, and repenting.
Lord...
beautiful quote, thanks for posting it. you should preach it sometime.
Thanks Carol... by the way North Allerton is all part of God's plan for you and your flock...
God bless
A
Thanks Olivia
I preach little else...
yours set apart by Christ for the lost, in the Army
A
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