A Voice in the Wilderness
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*** MORSEL EXTRAS***
Re: Impressive Prayer or the Cross?
In some...churches the man who prays first, longest and loudest gets a
reputation for being the most spiritual man in the assembly....The
[truly] spiritual man wants to carry his cross. Many Christians accept
adversity or tribulation with a sigh and call it their cross,
forgetting that such things come alike to saint and sinner. The cross
is that extra adversity that comes to us as a result of our obedience
to Christ. This cross is not forced upon us; we voluntarily take it up
with full knowledge of the consequences. We choose to obey Christ and
by so doing choose to carry the cross.
--A.W.Tozer
"Be careful of the scribes, those desiring to walk about in robes, and
greetings in the markets, and chief seats in the synagogues...and for a
pretense praying at length. These will receive more abundant judgment."
(Mk12:38-40)
"If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father, and mother, and
wife, and children, and brothers and sisters, and besides, even his own
life, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross
and come after Me, he cannot be My disciple. For who of you desiring
to build a tower does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he
has the things to finish; (Lk14:26-28)
"But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss because of
Christ. But, nay, rather I also count all things to be loss because of
the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake
I have suffered the loss of all things and count them to be trash, that
I might gain Christ (Phil3:7-8)
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