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Intensity
"As
the hart pants after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God." (Psa. 42:1). Here is intensity.
By intensity we mean that burning passion of the soul
after God. That intense desire to be holy as He is holy,
and to glorify Him in all words and acts of life. "I
opened my mouth and panted: for I longed for thy
commandments" (Psa. 119:131). Here is intensity.
Panting after the commandments of God like a thirsty
animal for water. The great task of the overseers of God's
church today is to keep God's people out of a careless, go
easy, indifferent life. How few thirst after God. How few
thirst and hunger for the salvation of souls. Preachers
may go over the country holding revivals and find
entertainment and enjoyment in doing so, but even of
those, how few have such a burning passion for souls that
they will wrestle with God in the midnight hour or early
morning hour or any convenient time for the salvation of
the lost. They may think more of what gain they will make.
This would be an awful crime, but it may be one of which
some are guilty. There are holiness people who act very
much as if no one were going to hell. Others act as if
they were just as holy as they cared to be. They seem to
have no thirsting for greater perfection of life. They act
as if there were no improvement to be made.
The need of today is a greater passion for goodness, a
more intense longing for greater Christlikeness and a
greater burden for those for whom our dear Savior gave His
life. "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because
they keep not thy law." (Psa. 119:136). Here is
intensity. When did you shed a tear over sinners lost? Do
not these words shame you? Dear people, the house is on
fire, how can ye keep on sleeping ?
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