Quote from Forum Archives on January 9, 2003, 11:43 pm

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,

Oswald Chambers, in the series, My Utmost for His Highest, has some
important comments to make regarding the deep inner searching of our
souls. I pray that the Spirit of God will awaken every area within
us so that we are able to be thoroughly cleansed and we are able to
respond to Him in every way. Read this message carefully. It's
short, but there's a lot in it.

Your Brother in Christ,
Brian
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January 9

Prayerful Inner-Searching

May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless...
1 Thessalonians 5:23

"Your whole spirit ..." The great, mysterious work of the Holy
Spirit is in the deep recesses of our being which we cannot
reach. Read Psalm 139 . The psalmist implies--"O Lord, You are
the God of the early mornings, the God of the late nights, the
God of the mountain peaks, and the God of the sea. But, my God,
my soul has horizons further away than those of early mornings,
deeper darkness than the nights of earth, higher peaks than any
mountain peaks, greater depths than any sea in nature. You who
are the God of all these, be my God. I cannot reach to the
heights or to the depths; there are motives I cannot discover,
dreams I cannot realize. My God, search me."

Do we believe that God can fortify and protect our thought
processes far beyond where we can go? "... the blood of Jesus
Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" ( 1 John 1:7 ). If this
verse means cleansing only on our conscious level, may God have
mercy on us. The man who has been dulled by sin will say that he
is not even conscious of it. But the cleansing from sin we
experience will reach to the heights and depths of our spirit if
we will "walk in the light as He is in the light" ( 1 John 1:7 ).
The same Spirit that fed the life of Jesus Christ will feed the
life of our spirit. It is only when we are protected by God with
the miraculous sacredness of the Holy Spirit that our spirit,
soul, and body can be preserved in pure uprightness until the
coming of Jesus-no longer condemned in God's sight.

We should more frequently allow our minds to meditate on these
great, massive truths of God.

(c) 2002 RBC Ministries-Grand Rapids MI, 49555-0001
www.gospelcom.net/rbc/utmost/

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Brian Masinick, mailto:masinick@yahoo.com
Home page: www.geocities.com/masinick/

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