Gospel News · May - August 2017

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W
e all want to overcome, to get over this
or that weakness, to be more spiritually
minded, to sin less, to be more devoted to the
Lord, to have greater self control, to be more
full of Him and not ourselves, and so forth. But
there seems some kind of brake that comes on
all the time. Our minds wander away from
spiritual thinking so easily. A blocked gutter or
broken toilet comes into our lives and swamps
us; and so hour by hour, day by day, life slips
away like sand between our fingers. We are
only occasionally arrested by a spiritual
thought, or the reality of the fact the Son of
God loved me and gave Himself for me, and I
shall by grace live eternally in His Kingdom.
We want to live in the shadow of the cross, of
the hope of the Kingdom, all the time. But…
somehow, we don’t seem to ‘get the feeling’
all the time. It is occasional, rather than
a general experience. Going to a Bible School
or helpful gathering becomes a ‘high’,
which recedes until the next such event or
experience.
No Excuses: Human Nature
Too quickly we blame our human nature for
this sad state of psychological affairs within
us. We assume there are parameters which we
can never really move far beyond; he’ll never
stop drinking, she’ll always be bitter about her
ex, I’ll never really be able to move on from
what they did. As if being human excuses us
from being too spiritually minded or devel-
oping too far. But just remember- all we posit
about human nature, we say about the Lord
Jesus. For He too had our nature, as our total
representative; yet despite that, He was
“holy, harmless… undefiled” (Heb. 7:26). His
character and work show us the huge possibil-
ities there are for those who bear human
nature. And the Bible is full of examples of
radically transformed people; Paul sees his
own conversion as a pattern for all who should
afterwards believe (1 Tim. 1:16).
Cain was in the gall of bitterness and jealous
hatred against his brother Abel. “If you do not
do well, sin lies [crouching, ready to spring]
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The Forewarned is better....................
Reward of the Conquerors ..................
Noah’s Ark - a Lesson for Today .............
Peace ...........................................
Sacrifices .......................................
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth ...........
Wanga Campaign, Northern Nigeria .......
The Love of Money...........................
Encouragement...............................
“By Whose Authority?” ......................
Little by Little ................................
Reaping What is Sown .......................
A Good Testimony Through Faith ..........
Letter from Tongaren Ecclesia, Kenya ....
“Love Envieth Not” ..........................
One of Many ..................................
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