Interesting Quotes But Comes from the Same Email Source..

...and what does it says?

Are we the body of Christ has this sense of half-way belief/unbelief that we can't be sure what we can do in Christ?

The quotes in question that comes from the same email that i have received from a Christian website

"The Cause of the weakness of your Christian life is that you want
to work it out partly, and then have God help you. That cannot be.
You must come to be utterly helpless, to let God work. He will
work gloriously." ~ Andrew Murray

"To DIE TO SELF, or to come from under its power, IS NOT AND
CAN NOT BE DONE by any active resistance we can make
against it OR by our own power of nature. The one true way of
dying to self is the way of patience, meekness, humility, surrender
and RESIGNATION to God." ~ Andrew Murray

"We Can not please God by what we do for Him in our own human
effort, we can only please Him by surrendering and letting Him work
in and through our lives." ~John Mulinde

“I will die for my God. I will die for my faith. It's the least I can do
for Christ dying for me.” ~ Cassie Bernall, Columbine High Martyr

"We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit
manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to
stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us
and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility
in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives,
with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world."
~Smith Wigglesworth.

Like the sesame street or electric company, the programs asked kids to pick out the item that is different from the rest.

So what is different in the above quotes?

My view is the one from Cassie. I am not saying that she has died in vain for Christ but it is the attitude behind that quote. If we are to be grateful for what Christ has done for us on the cross, then the only thing that will please Him is to believe that He died for us on the cross. Nothing we do, nothing we say can never please God if our understanding of his sacrifice and the intention of our works is in error.

That is the reason why Andrew Murray says that to die to self, that is the realisation that what we do, think, act, speak etc can never please God until we realise, that our works in evangelisation, in charity work and in volunteering for the Church must be rooted in the understanding that what we do has no power in itself to save us from ourselves.

Only when we work out that faith in us from the foundation of understanding that our salvation is already being given to us by God through Christ work on the cross, will God work in us and through us. That's the gist of what James is writing about. James is saying that the work is evident of our salvation.

That's true...but from his writing, unscrupulous reading of the bible can be construed that we ourselves need evidence of our salvation through works which I think is not the intention of James. We love because Christ first love us, and out of this love will bear fruits of works that will give glory to God, and not to condemn us.

I have said the same thing to Ms Lie, that whatever we do, it is through the foundation of the right understanding of His Grace, the unmerited favour of God, that we already have that favour in His eyes and we do things knowing our salvation is secured. So long His blood is everlasting, our salvation is ever lasting on the mercy seat.

We don't need to die for God in order to show our love to Him. We need only to believe and to surrender our propensity to rely on our own efforts to gain the salvation. Salvation can only come through faith in Christ not through our works. Salvation won't come in a feeling of being saved. Just know and belief we are saved. That's it...it is so simple and yet it took someone's glorious life to give us that simplicity.

So please don't destroy the beauty of that act by saying salvation still need our works to apply to us.

The Joy Of *fill in the blanks* In The Presence Of The Lord

Sometimes you never get to know the what the Lord can do just to get you not so pissed with the situation.

Like for instance this new job. How would a person who has both Business and IT background able to get into a Law firm doing conveyancing work? Somehow or rather I have two inklings

a) The Lord wants me to use whatever I have learn in the area of Law.

b) The Lord wants me to understand certain things when it comes to dealing with real estate.

Both of which are useful to know and definitely the Lord understands there are things that will Bless me more.

And the understanding I have after 3 weeks at Characterist is that this place is growing and growing fast but as with all organisations, there are things that will be improving soon by Grace of God through Christ.

And the best part of it all is that Temasek Poly just signed a MOU with ST-Eng(info-sec) to provide a diploma in Digital Forensics. Yes it is a mouthful but it is essentially to safeguard IT resources or ensuring IT evidences can be admitted to the Court of Law during litigation. Something I would not have thought of if I am just focusing on Marketing in IT firms which I have been doing for quite some time.

So what's left is still to trust God in the sea of uncertainties.

Assume good things to come for the Lord has redeemed us from the curse of the Law. So we are now in the Law because Christ has fulfilled what has been demanded by the law 2000 years ago.

It is certainly a weird way to enter a law firm but who can make crooked a path that the Lord has straightened for?