"Salt-Licks" -- Devotional Anthologies by Dennis Rideout
Salt-Lick #30 THE CROSS
A Devotional-Anthology by Dennis Rideout
"If any man would come after Me, let him DENY himSELF and take up HIS cross -->DAILY<-- and [in order to] Follow Me!"-Lk 9:23 {This is the ONLY recording of Jesus using this word, "DAILY!", in this context! -- This verse ought to be "viewed-in-Light-of" Lk 14:27}
"Jesus, Who for the JOY [that was] set before Him, ENDURED the Cross!"-Heb 12:2
"Forbid it Lord, that I should boast, save in the Death of Christ my God;
All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His Blood!"
See, from His head, His hands, His feet, sorrow and Love flow mingled-down;
Did e're such Love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown?
When I survey the wondrous CROSS, on which the Prince Of Glory Died;
My richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride!"-A Hymn
"The Master's assignment to us is to save our life by LOSING it in Service to Him. SELF must be cast aside. Unbroken and unbruised disciples are of little use! True Living is Dying ("Denying SELF"-Lk 9:23). When the law of self-sacrifice has become the principal of the heart, then one's Life becomes a Blessing to others!"-Taylor
"He who does not take his cross and Follow Me (in SELF-Denial!) is not WORTHY of Me!"-Mt 11:38
"One canNOT say, "NO!" while saying, "Lord!""-Corrie Ten Boom
"Gethsemane and Calvary stand for something unique; They are the GATEWAY into Life for us! It is the agony of God AND man in One; face-to-face -WITH- sin!"-Oswald Chambers
(God {Who CANNOT sin} became "one-WITH" sin, so that man {who COULD NOT DO Right} might become "One-WITH" God's Righteousness!)
"It is the END that brings the honor; It is the Victory that crowns the warrior rather than the Battle. Yet there is not one cent of debt owing from Christ's people to their God EXCEPT a Debt of Love!"-Spurgeon (And Loving SHOWS it! --- Love without FRUIT is barren, DEAD!)
"Crucified -WITH- Christ, it is no longer I who live, but CHRIST-IN-me!"-Gal 2:20
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