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Wednesday Nov 20, 2024

Death worketh in us

“Intercession is not only the spoken word of faith, but the persistent giving of ourselves by whatever ways God indicates to see the fulfillment. It is Paul’s filling up ‘that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body’s sake.’ ‘So death worketh in us, but life in you.’ That is why I think one of the top-most sayings in the Bible is Isaiah’s prophecy about Christ: ‘It pleased the Lord to bruise Him.’ The Father’s greatest pleasure was when in His Son He had one upon whom He could put the full weight of bodily sacrifice for the whole world. It pleases the Lord if He can bruise us for those He has sent us to save, and we can take the bruises. There are no limits to that. I had the profound influence in my life of my own father-in-law, C.T. Studd, who had said to the Lord at the moment of his full consecration when England’s greatest cricketer, ‘if Jesus Christ, God’s Son, gave His life to save me, I can only be an honest Christian if I give my life for Him.’ And God took him at his word. Called from all his earthly glory as a cricketer to inland China: while there, giving away every penny of his large inheritance, probably worth a quarter of a million in today’s values, for the spread of the gospel: living his last sixteen years in the heart of Africa in his bamboo home surrounded by the Africans he loved and came to win for Christ.”

–Taken from Who Am I?

By Norman Grubb

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