The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.
Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.
Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.
Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.
We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.
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