Nov 3
A Bond-slave Of Jesus
I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me. -Galatians 2:20
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These words mean the breaking of my independence with my own hand and
surrendering to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me,
I must do it myself. God may bring me up to the point three hundred and
sixty-five times a year, but He cannot put me through it. It means breaking
the husk of my individual independence of God, and the emancipating of my
personality into oneness with Himself, not for my own ideas, but for
absolute loyalty to Jesus. There is no possibility of dispute when once I am
there. Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ - "For My sake."
It is that which makes the iron saint.
Has that break come? All the rest is pious fraud. The one point to decide is
- Will I give up, will I surrender to Jesus Christ, and make no conditions
whatever as to how the break comes? I must be broken from my
self-realization, and immediately that point is reached, the reality of the
supernatural identification takes place at once, and the witness of the
Spirit of God is unmistakable - "I have been crucified with Christ."
The passion of Christianity is that I deliberately sign away my own rights
and become a bond-slave of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I do not begin to
be a saint.
One student a year who hears God's call would be sufficient for God to have
called this College into existence. This College as an organization is not
worth anything, it is not academic; it is for nothing else but for God to
help Himself to lives. Is He going to help Himself to us, or are we taken up
with our conception of what we are going to be?
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Victoria E Gilkerson
