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The Intercessor, Vol 16 No 3

Spontaneous Living
by Norman Grubb

Why is the realization of union with God essential for daily living? And why must we also know that we redeemed humans are wholly and solely His, spirit, soul and body, and not a half old and half new man? Because we are to live freely, boldly, zestfully, gaily, wholeheartedly. Life is to be to us a great adventure. We are not to be ashamed of calling it a thrill. The commonplace is always to be the fresh to us. The most insignificant, the most obscure is life with a purpose. It is spontaneous living. And it can only be that when two facts are facts to which we need make no further reference, except by way of continuous thanksgiving. The one is that God and we are so one’d that we just live, and yet it is God, and in a sense the relationship is automatic-we just live. And the other is that we are free selves, with no internal enemies lurking within, with no civil war or rival claimants within, free to think, free to serve, free to act, free to believe, free to give our-selves for the world.

For normal living is free-hearted, free-minded concentration on the job in hand. We are not made capable of thinking of two things at once. When we are doing something, we put all we have into it. We cannot, therefore, be thinking directly of Christ at the same time, or consciously communing with Him. We have a sub-conscious realization of His presence, like the flow of an underground stream, and we refer to Him momentarily at any time; but the great percentage of our daily lives is spent, not directly in touch with Him, but immersed in our own affairs. Now if the union, by grace, is an automatic fact, then we do not suddenly come under condemnation that we have thought little directly of Him through the day; but just because He and we are one person, so what we were thinking about and doing was what He was t hinking and doing. We never were apart, not for one second; such apartness is a ridiculous impossibility. Wherever we are, He is. He has joined Himself to us–by infinite grace–and that’s the end of it.

–From God Unlimited

More Articles from The Intercessor, Vol 16 No 3

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  • To Think About…
  • Editor’s Note
  • A Look at a Book
  • Summer Camp 2000, The Adults
  • Tape Talk
  • Bible Study: God’s Law
  • A Life Transformed
  • Zerubbabel Focus: Computers
  • Questions & Answers
  • Spontaneous Living
  • The Laugh of Faith
  • Youth Camp Report
  • On the Web
  • The Christian in the Workplace
  • Leadership in Music
  • "One Died for All, Therefore All Died"
  • God’s Restoration of Man
  • Only Men Count
  • Intercession In Action
  • Faith Produces Deeds…
  • Words to Live By…

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