More Favorite Moments On the Journey

Several days ago I shared some of my favorite moments from reading through The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee. As I was gathering quotes from the book that impacted me, I soon realized that there were too many to put into just one post. So, here is part two of my favorite moments on the journey over the last eight weeks or so:

“Satan’s temptations are not designed primarily to make us do something particularly sinful, but merely to cause us to act in our energy; and as soon as we step out of our hiding-place to do something on that basis, he has gained the victory over us.”

“And this is the truth. God will not give me humility or patience or holiness or love as separate gifts of His grace. He is not a retailer dispensing grace to us in packets, measuring out some patience to the impatient, some love to the unloving, some meekness to the proud, in quantities that we take and work on as a kind of capital. He has given only one gift to meet all our need: His Son Christ Jesus. As I look to Him to live out His life in me, He will be humble and patient and loving and everything else I need - in my stead.”

“What does it mean to walk after the Spirit? It means two things. Firstly, it is not a work; it is a walk. Praise God, the burdensome and fruitless effort I involved myself in when I sought ‘in the flesh’ to please God gives place to a quiet and restful dependence on ‘His working which worketh in me mightily” (Col 1:20).

“It is not so much a matter of what we are doing, but of what powers we are employing to do it, and who is controlling those powers. ... We think too little of the source of our energy and too much of the end to which it is directed. Forgetting that with God the end never justifies the means.”

“Adam did not let sin into the world by committing murder. That came later. Adam let in sin by choosing to have his soul developed to a place where he could go on by himself apart from God.”

Posted 11.16.2008

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