A Month of Sentences (1)

The Christian Life, the Faithful Yearning to Yield All to Him

Man's spirit cannot thrive without tenaciously yielding to God's vital dictate.

This all-demanding way leads to our spirits' true home, so... reckon rightly!

The life-redeeming love of God admits only the all-surrendered.

Divine redemption is central to genuine humanity because He is the Center to Whom we belong. If we are headed toward Him we are becoming like Him; if headed somewhere else, then becoming something else.

Final belonging will be total exposure to the immutable God. To us in Christ it means, not terror, but a union of love; it means everything. 

Self's perfect heights do not exist outside surrender to freedom's Author, do not exist outside the flow of His love to all that is not self .

Within the Only God, the Only Love prevailed infinitely: surmounted and subsumed the Only Crisis. So, only, does fear turn to love within us. So, only, do all things become to us His goodness, gift and glory. 

To yield all to Him Who is All is to gain all. It is never by accident, only by open need, conscious appeal, intentional relinquishment. 

The faithful yearning, that will not betray, originates in God Who alone encompasses meaning. It leads into a fire, yes, but it leads through. Blessed is the soul that understands, responds, in time. 

The Christian life is no worship of a text and letter. It is a union with living fire. It is the creation grafted into, and made expression of, God's infinite Self-giving.

Our inmost longings cannot be forever out of sight. They inevitably create externally, for good or ill. The Father's desire is to be the gushing 'Source of the Inmost' and, so, to create His child's world. 

Disillusioned with self-authorship, we are compelled by need, not desire, to surrender to the awful truth: Life's very fabric is the freedom of inexhaustible love, in God alone. 

God's work in us reconciles and excludes in growing harmony with His fierce love and purity. In us 'there is no good thing' but 'Christ in you, the hope of glory.'

True longing for Truth serves the Truth, doesn't dictate to It. Constant devotion to God is constant having--having Him Whom none ever possesses. Patient endurance in the Truth is Love's constant arrival. 

Sovereign Love lays out a course for us to run--day and night, in sun and storm, over smooth track and looming obstacles. To keep running is our duty and a saving focus. And to run the course with joy--a choice. 

Awake, press on, change, become. Only life invaded and occupied by Love's Sire is life worth living, and life worth imparting. 

Our worth is rooted and fixed in a reality beyond our conjuring or control. To enter the Reality is to inherit the treasure: the worth of our belonging to God in Christ.  

Only thus does imperfect man reveal the perfect Maker Whose infinite facets, demanding myriad and pure expression, will unite us in the full-grown stature of Christ.

His miraculous intent is our pure unity in the infinite expression of love for which each of us is uniquely shaped. 

Necessary paradox: to chase what's inexorable, to enter what invades, to strain after what's given,  to discover God...and yourself...in the other who is not God or yourself.

What must be: Love's law sets the price and pays it; Love's power breaks fear's bonds; New Life rises, bound to Love's freedom.

Faithfulness is our "cruise control", a constant drive and "solid state", charged from the center and pervading the totality, through every twist, hazard and monotonous stretch of life's highway.

Our hearts' homing instinct is lit and fueled by the Life perpetually born--but never originated--in us at Love's decree.

To turn from heart's home is to turn from heart itself, from its substance, appointment and source. True fear of the Lord is courageous susceptibility--to the un-comprehended, uncontainable Majesty. 

God's fierce centrality never yields; it assaults our souls with love's hammer; it harries the spirit with life's merciless wonder. 

'In God': a flourishing wholeness of life and will; truth revealed is the believing soul healed.

The One Who knows that our liberation from withered, loveless inauthenticity as Man materializes only in union with Him will never 'play fair' with usurpers of His right and pretenders to His glory.

Crystal vision and perfect choice form in faith's helpless, obstinate resort to the supernal Designer. 

Fatal error flows from blind pride's refusal to unstintingly abandon self to the Only Light and Life of all things. 

Exulting in God's invincible rightness, Humility yields to His provision and will.