“It is the thirsty
soul who will be satisfied, but we must be sure our thirst is right and deep. Take hypocrisy to Christ, the physician whose skill
and faithfulness can make you whole. If you must die, die at His door. But for
your comfort, remember that no one has ever fallen out of His healing hand; and
no case has ever been too hard for Him to handle. He blamed the hypocrites who
were ready to trust any charlatan ministering in his own name without God's
authority but who would not confess the One who had come in the Father's name.
And He who blamed hypocrites for not coming cannot be angry with you if you
come. It is His calling.
Christ came to be
a physician to sick souls. Pharisees were so settled in their own conceit that
the Savior spent His time with those who admitted they needed help. If you
cannot do anything but groan under your weight of hypocrisy, and send those
groans in prayer to God, your healer will soon come to you. Since His ascension
into heaven Jesus has never once laid down His calling, but still practices,
granting forgiveness as faithfully as ever.
For example,
Christ counseled Laodicea how to be loosed from her deadly disease of
hypocrisy: "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
may be rich; and white raiment, that thou may be clothed" Revelation 3:18.
He warned, "Laodicea, you are deceiving yourself and others with
appearances instead of realities, with counterfeit graces for true ones; your
gold is impure and your robes are rotten rags. They do not cover your shame but
expose it. Come to Me if you want real treasure." Although Christ
mentioned buying, what he really meant was buyer's spirit, valuing Christ and
His grace so highly that, if they could be bought, a person would be willing to
spend all the money in his account and even the blood in his veins for it, yet
still go home saying it was a bargain. It is the thirsty soul who will be
satisfied, but we must be sure our thirst is right and deep.”
Quoted material from, ”The Christian in Complete
Armour Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare” by Gurnall and James S Bell.
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