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death, dying to self, encouragement, experience, freedom, life, my parents, resurrection, T.A. Sparks
It has been a process for some time and it still is. I recall having mentioned months ago in another blog post that thoughts and memories about my past had become less and less appealing to me. After both of my parents have died recently, this process appears to have intensified on a deeper level, too. For a long time I have been grappling with my inability to describe that which happens inside me. I knew I wanted to write an article about God’s doing in my heart and soul but I had no idea how to do it.
Dear brothers and sisters, I was not sure whether I should write publicly about my latest experiences with God at all. But since I shared my “suffering-with-Christ-years” extensively on this site for almost ten years, why should I withhold from you that the power of His resurrection does exist? Isn’t it the inmost desire of every human being God has created that the sting of death is removed so that they can truly LIVE without fearing death any longer?
Every human being can talk about God, Christ, and the Bible as long as they have been enabled to speak. The more educated they are, the more convincing such people seem to be, esp. to those who cannot figure out Satan’s elaborate strategies. T. Austin-Sparks said,
This time I want to be rather silent and offer you an interpretation of Isaiah, chapter 53, verses 1-12, by T. Austin-Sparks. I guess most of us are familiar with this chapter that describes the suffering Messiah. But have we ever pondered on the possibility that we might reject our Savior Jesus Christ, not as the One who has died for our sins, but as the One who has revealed Himself to us personally because He wanted to lead us further into the truth… than we were willing to accept?
Just lately I have begun to see that a continuous life in the Spirit has to be governed by the Lord alone. Anything else I chose according to my old fleshly habits led to death, even my own thought life. Before going further by giving you another example, I decided to paste one of two short excerpts from T. Austin Sparks which clearly revealed the truth of my experiences afterwards to me. TAS said,
Entering the Promised Land 