"I have not come to you on my own behalf, but have been sent by the one who is truth. Nor have I come down from heaven to do my own will but the will of the Father who has sent me. I was born and came into this world for one purpose: to be a living witness to the truth.
Those who love the truth will follow me."
--Jesus
The Truth Jesus Gave Living Witness:
Jesus Christ Is the Eternal Son of God,
My Elder Brother, My Lord and Master
Jesus has an Absolute Right to my obedience
In whatever way I may come to know
What it is He wants me to do.
To Obey Jesus is to climb to the height of
my human potential. To not obey Him
would be to deny Him.
Jesus died that I might die like Him:
Die to any ruling power in me but the
Perfect Will of God. To live ready to be
nailed to a cross, if God will it.
Jesus is my Savior from myself.
From all that comes from loving myself,
From all that God does not love,
From all that God would not have me love,
From all that is not worth loving.
Jesus died that the Justice and Mercy of God
might have its way with me:
Making me Just as God is Just
Making me Merciful as God is merciful
Making me Perfect as He is Perfect.
God will give me what
punishment I need
-to set me right
-Or keep me from going wrong.
Jesus died to deliver me from all
The child of our Father in Heaven.
Loving nothing but what is lovely,
Desiring nothing I would be ashamed to let
the universe of God see me desire.
God is just like Jesus,
Only greater.
For Jesus said so.
God is absolutely, grandly beautiful,
even as we might, in our loftier moments,
count beauty.
Beautiful beyond what our soul can
even imagine.
God is beautiful with a beauty that creates
beauty, not merely shows itself beautiful.
God has always done, is always doing
His very best for every man;
No man is miserable because God is
forgetting him.
He is not a God to crouch before,
but our Father, to Whom the Child-heart
cries: 'Do with me, Father, what You will!"
There is nothing good for me or anyone
but God,
and more and more of God.
That alone through knowing Christ
can we draw near to Him.
No man is ever condemned for any sin but one:
That he will not leave his sins
and come out of them
And be the child of Him who is his Father.
Justice and Mercy are simply
one and the same thing:
Without Justice there can be no Mercy
Without Mercy to the full there can be
no Justice.
This is the Mercy of God:
He will hold his children in the
Consuming Fire of His distance
Until they pay the last penny of repentance
And drop the purse of selfishness
With all its worthless contents,
And rush home to the Father and the Son
And the many brothers and sisters;
Rush inside the life-giving fire
Whose outer circles burn.
No Hell will be lacking
which would help the just
Mercy of God redeem His children.
To the one who obeys
and opens the door of his heart
to receive the Eternal Gift,
God gives the Spirit of His Son,
The Spirit of Himself to be in him,
and lead him to the understanding
of all Truth.
The True Disciple shall always know
what he ought to do,
though not necessarily
what another ought to do.
The Spirit of the Father and Son
enlightens by teaching Righteousness.
No teacher should strive to make men
think as he thinks,
But lead them to the Living Truth,
To the Master Himself,
Of Whom alone can they learn anything,
Who will make them in themselves know
What is True by the very seeing of it.
The Inspiration of the Almighty alone
gives understanding.
To be a Disciple of Jesus Christ
Is the Goal of our existence,
The reason we are born.
To persuade men to be
Disciples of Jesus Christ
Is the Goal of Teaching!
adapted from Justice, Unspoken Sermons III, George MacDonald.
Jesus Christ Is the Eternal Son of God,
My Elder Brother, My Lord and Master
Jesus has an Absolute Right to my obedience
In whatever way I may come to know
What it is He wants me to do.
To Obey Jesus is to climb to the height of
my human potential. To not obey Him
would be to deny Him.
Jesus died that I might die like Him:
Die to any ruling power in me but the
Perfect Will of God. To live ready to be
nailed to a cross, if God will it.
Jesus is my Savior from myself.
From all that comes from loving myself,
From all that God does not love,
From all that God would not have me love,
From all that is not worth loving.
Jesus died that the Justice and Mercy of God
might have its way with me:
Making me Just as God is Just
Making me Merciful as God is merciful
Making me Perfect as He is Perfect.
God will give me what
punishment I need
-to set me right
-Or keep me from going wrong.
Jesus died to deliver me from all
- Meanness
- Pretense
- Falseness
- Unfairness
- Poverty of spirit
- Cowardice
- Anxiety
- Fear
- Self-worship
- False Trust in possession
The child of our Father in Heaven.
Loving nothing but what is lovely,
Desiring nothing I would be ashamed to let
the universe of God see me desire.
God is just like Jesus,
Only greater.
For Jesus said so.
God is absolutely, grandly beautiful,
even as we might, in our loftier moments,
count beauty.
Beautiful beyond what our soul can
even imagine.
God is beautiful with a beauty that creates
beauty, not merely shows itself beautiful.
God has always done, is always doing
His very best for every man;
No man is miserable because God is
forgetting him.
He is not a God to crouch before,
but our Father, to Whom the Child-heart
cries: 'Do with me, Father, what You will!"
There is nothing good for me or anyone
but God,
and more and more of God.
That alone through knowing Christ
can we draw near to Him.
No man is ever condemned for any sin but one:
That he will not leave his sins
and come out of them
And be the child of Him who is his Father.
Justice and Mercy are simply
one and the same thing:
Without Justice there can be no Mercy
Without Mercy to the full there can be
no Justice.
This is the Mercy of God:
He will hold his children in the
Consuming Fire of His distance
Until they pay the last penny of repentance
And drop the purse of selfishness
With all its worthless contents,
And rush home to the Father and the Son
And the many brothers and sisters;
Rush inside the life-giving fire
Whose outer circles burn.
No Hell will be lacking
which would help the just
Mercy of God redeem His children.
To the one who obeys
and opens the door of his heart
to receive the Eternal Gift,
God gives the Spirit of His Son,
The Spirit of Himself to be in him,
and lead him to the understanding
of all Truth.
The True Disciple shall always know
what he ought to do,
though not necessarily
what another ought to do.
The Spirit of the Father and Son
enlightens by teaching Righteousness.
No teacher should strive to make men
think as he thinks,
But lead them to the Living Truth,
To the Master Himself,
Of Whom alone can they learn anything,
Who will make them in themselves know
What is True by the very seeing of it.
The Inspiration of the Almighty alone
gives understanding.
To be a Disciple of Jesus Christ
Is the Goal of our existence,
The reason we are born.
To persuade men to be
Disciples of Jesus Christ
Is the Goal of Teaching!
adapted from Justice, Unspoken Sermons III, George MacDonald.
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