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Living
With Christ
"If
we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him." 2
Tim. 2:11. Not only when we get to heaven, but here on
earth. If we do not live with Him here, we shall not live
with Him in heaven. You cannot speak idly, impatiently,
eat intemperately, willfully and premeditatively and be a
Christian. And to do those things thoughtlessly and
carelessly is to become a very weak Christian, and will
finally end in the utter loss of spiritual life. Many,
many saints are living too carelessly, thoughtlessly. They
may pray the Lord to help that every word they speak may
be seasoned with grace, but oh, how careless they are
about their words when they come from prayer. They seem to
give such little heed to help God answer their prayers.
They will chatter along for an hour about earthly things
without once thinking of God or whether their words are
pleasing unto Him. They will talk about things that ought
not to be spoken by those professing to be saints. They
seem to enjoy talking about the unholy deeds of others. To
live with Jesus is to have but few words, and them well
chosen. To live with Christ is to have Him live with us.
He is to be in all we do. It is not for us to live but Him
to live in us. Christ liveth in me.
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