by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 13, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust. We must confess, forsake, repudiate the self-life, and then reckon it crucified. But we must be careful to distinguish lazy “acceptance” from the real work of God. We must insist upon the work being done....
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 12, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“To rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful. Yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free.”
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 11, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“There must be a work of God in destruction before we are free. We must invite the cross to do its deadly work within us. We must bring our self-sins to the cross for judgment. We must prepare ourselves for an ordeal of suffering in some measure like that through...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 10, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“Self can live unrebuked at the very altar. It can watch the bleeding Victim die and not be in the least affected by what it sees. It can fight for the faith of the Reformers and preach eloquently the creed of salvation by grace, and gain strength by its efforts. To...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 9, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“It (the veil over the human heart) is woven of the fine threads of the self-life, the hyphenated sins of the human spirit. They are not something we do, they are something we are, and therein lies both their subtlety and their power. To be specific, the self-sins are...
