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Words of Life
No 30, 2015, North Queensland
Luke 9:23-24
With the revival of the church in the United Kingdom in the 1830’s, many articles were written by novelists and poets and church ministers to encourage the people to again return to the truth of the scriptures as revealed by the Holy Ghost, again active in the world. One such writer was a George MacDonald in Scotland who wrote an article which is still used today by many modern day speakers.
It reads:
“In whatever a man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.”
He cited our text as the inspiration to those words given him and stated rather than merely trying to suppress our natural desires, he said that true self-denial means “we must see things as Christ saw them, regard them as He regarded them; we must take the will of God as the very life of our being, we should not think, what would I like to do?, but rather what would Jesus have me do?”
He wrote getting only what we want is succeeding miserably. True success is found in “losing our lives for Jesus sake and finding them again full and free in this will.”
There is much wisdom to be found in these simple words.
He concluded his writing with a simple daily poem-
More like the Master I would live and grow,
More like His love to others I would show;
More self-denial like His in Galilee,
More like the Master I long to ever be.