True Spirituality

To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but also at every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.

And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.

The real solution is being cast up into the moment-by-moment communion, personal communion, with God himself, and letting Christ’s truth flow through me through the agency of the Holy Spirit.

Christian faith is always believing what God has said. And Christian faith rests upon Christ’s finished work on the cross.

But after we become Christians, the moments proceed, the clock continues to tick; and in every moment of time, our calling is to believe God, raise the empty hands of faith, and let fruit flow out through us.

This is the practice of active passivity. And it is the only way anybody can live; there is no other way to live but moment by moment.

Let me repeat: the only difference in the practice is that in justification it is once for all, and the Christian life is lived moment by moment. The Christian life is acting moment by moment on the same principle, and in the same way, as I acted at the moment of my justification.

In justification the basis is the finished work of Jesus Christ; in sanctification it is the finished work of Christ. In justification, we must see, acknowledge, and act upon the fact that we cannot save ourselves. In sanctification, we must see, acknowledge, and act upon the fact that we cannot live the Christian life in our own strength, or in our own goodness.

It is always doctrine appropriated that counts.

what is needed is the knowledge of the meaning of the work of Christ in our present life