"He that does the will of God abides forever."
(1 John 2:17 )
(1915-2003)
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"What does it mean to be free? Does it mean that you do anything that
your please at any time? That you throw off all order and restraint, you're
just self-indulgent, self-pleasing, self-willed...Let me tell you, friend, that's
not real freedom. That's slavery. It's slavery to self and its slavery to sin.
But there is a kind of real freedom that comes when God sets our hearts free.
What's the evidence? When we are truly liberated by the grace of God, and
the power of God, it's not to please ourselves, it's not to do our own thing,
but it's to be able to obey God and be able to obey Him with delight, to obey
Him with readiness, not reluctantly, not grudgingly, but freely and joyfully.
I just long to know what Your will is. And when I discover Your will,
I run in that pathway. There's a note of eagerness, a note of excitement,
that comes not from pleasing self, but from seeking to please God,
from doing His will."
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