His Nature and Our Motives
“ … unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of Heaven.” Matthew 5:20
Oswald Chambers had a good grasp on the Keswick Message – a life of sustained victory when we allow Christ to live HIS live through us …
The characteristics of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his MOTIVES, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
The ONLY thing that exceeds right-doing is RIGHT-BEING. Jesus Christ came to place within anyone who would let Him a new heredity that would have a righteousness exceeding that of the scribes and Pharisees.
Jesus is saying, “If you are My disciple, you must be right not only in your actions, but also in your motives, your aspirations, and in the deep recesses of the thoughts of your mind.” Your motives must be so pure that God Almighty can see NOTHING to rebuke.
Who can stand in the eternal light of God and have nothing for Him to rebuke? Only the Son of God, and Jesus Christ claims that through His redemption He can place within anyone His own nature and make that person as pure and simple as a child. The purity that God demands is IMPOSSIBLE unless I can be remade within, and that is exactly what Jesus has undertaken to do through HIS redemption.
NO ONE can make himself pure by obeying laws. Jesus Christ does not give us rules and regulations – He gives us His teachings which are truths that can only be interpreted by HIS nature which HE places within us.
The great wonder of Jesus Christ’s salvation is that HE changes our heredity. He does not change human nature – HE changes its source, and thereby its motives as well. – My Utmost for His Highest – July 24 reading
Today, my brother, allow HIM to live HIS life THROUGH you!. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
Compass Pointers: The one misery of man is self-will, the one secret of blessedness is the conquest over our own wills. To yield them up to God is rest and peace. What disturbs us in this world is not "trouble," but our opposition to trouble. The true source of all that frets and irritates, and wears away our lives, is not in external things, but in the existence of our wills to the will of God expressed by external things.
Alexander MacLaren
Anchored to the Rock: Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. Martin Luther
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