In my quiet time this morning I was reading in Donald Grey Barnhouse's commentary on Romans. Read what he had to say about Romans 1:1 and let it bless you today.
"Look out among the people you know as Christians and you will discover two sorts. One rubs you the wrong way, the other fills you with admiration. One of them boasts that he doesn't do this and doesn't do that until you think that failing to do certain things is the whole of his religion. Those with whom he talks want to go out and do the very things he does not do as a sort of reaction against that in his life which is offensive. The other Christian strikes you as being a holy person. You do not expect him to do certain things because you rather feel he is possessed by higher motives. He has been in the presence of the Lord and is so filled with that presence that he draws you to Christ. If you are not this type of Christian, you are not what God wants. You may bleat from morning to evening that you don't get drunk and don't go in for carnal pleasures, but no one is going to listen to you. You have pumped a lot of things out of your life but you have nothing else in their place and even nature abhors a vacuum.
In a Bible class at the University of California campus, a group of students were considering the verse, 'Ye are the salt of the earth.' They were describing the various functions and qualities of salt for seasoning, for preserving, and for other uses. A Chinese girl said, 'Salt makes you thirsty.' Do you make anyone thirsty for Christ? You never will by separating from something. But you will always by separating unto Christ."
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I love my brother. He has a great grip on the meaning of a life in Christ.
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