The Life of the Spirit
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, General Christianity, Christian Life
| Author: | T. Austin-Sparks | ISBN: | 9781927326589 |
| Publisher: | Austin-Sparks.Net | Publication: | September 14, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | T. Austin-Sparks |
| ISBN: | 9781927326589 |
| Publisher: | Austin-Sparks.Net |
| Publication: | September 14, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Why is the Christian life so complicated for so many? Simply because we are all the time trying to interpret God according to our own thoughts, to bring God down to our own judgment and make Him conform to our mentality. We find that it does not work. We cannot get on that way at all and God does not come down there. Something has to happen to turn us inside out and make us altogether new and different, and that is Christ. He is so different, so other. He is the embodiment of Divine thoughts in their very essence. Christ is a new system of ideas, different ideas altogether, and these Divine ideas are eternal.
Why is the Christian life so complicated for so many? Simply because we are all the time trying to interpret God according to our own thoughts, to bring God down to our own judgment and make Him conform to our mentality. We find that it does not work. We cannot get on that way at all and God does not come down there. Something has to happen to turn us inside out and make us altogether new and different, and that is Christ. He is so different, so other. He is the embodiment of Divine thoughts in their very essence. Christ is a new system of ideas, different ideas altogether, and these Divine ideas are eternal.
