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The Secret of the Christian Life
THE
SECRET OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
By: Gene Edwards
What have you been told is the secret to the Christian life?
Pray and read your Bible? Go to church? Witness? Speak in tongues?
Tithe?
Let me go on record. I do not believe anything on that list
even comes close to the issue of how to live the Christian life.
All have one inherent flaw. The fatal flaw? Every item on the
aforementioned list assumes that it is possible to live the Christian
life. Can you live the Christian life? The answer is no, a resounding
NO! You cannot live the Christian life.
That list takes for granted you can live the Christian life.
Also note that you are the center of every item on that list.
Call it "you-centeredness." You out there living the
Christian life. You cannot live the Christian life. Jesus Christ
could not live the Christian life. None of us can live the Christian
life! If Jesus Christ cannot live the Christian life, what makes
you think that you can? You can give up trying to live the Christian
life! We can all testify what a colossal failure we have been
at trying to live the Christian life.
God the Father lives the Christian life. "How does God
the Father live the Christian life?" He doesn't. He is the
Christian life. He is the highest life. God the Father is the
wellspring, the source, the first motion, and the fountainhead
of the Christian life.
The Father indwelt His Son here on this earth for thirty-three
years. The Father lived the Christian life inside Jesus Christ.
It was the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, which
lived the Christian life inside your Lord. It is the Father's
life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian
life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which
will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list
in order to "live the Christian life," and you are
doomed to frustration.
But on the day you quit trying to live the Christian life
...then you will finally give Him the freeway to live out in
you what is so easy and so simple and so organic for Him to do.
Hopefully, you just got set free from a long list of do's and
don'ts (the "do's" you can't do, and the "don'ts"
you always do). Why look so shocked; stop and think about it.
You never were any good at living the Christian life. Admit it.
From: The Secret of the Christian Life
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