tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044571629293488418.post986830398179706800..comments2023-07-23T09:53:50.773-04:00Comments on Bags All Packed: Eastermeemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104303592278897991noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044571629293488418.post-75961038813729495242013-03-30T06:54:32.255-04:002013-03-30T06:54:32.255-04:00Thank you, Nina. The root of the problem always re...Thank you, Nina. The root of the problem always returns to man’s determination to believe we can out do God. Human striving can never equal holiness. Vance Havner said it like this:<br /><br />The starting point to “all things” is to learn that we are nothing. “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing” (Rom. 7:18). “For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself” (Gal. 6:3). What a self-deceived generation, then, is ours! “It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.” We do not have what it takes. Start with your nothingness – “Just as I am, without one plea” – and you are on your way to His “all things.”<br /><br />Let our debts be what they may, however great or small;<br />As soon as we have naught to pay, our Lord forgives us all.<br />‘Tis perfect poverty alone that sets the soul at large;<br />While we can call one mite our own, we have no full discharge.<br /><br />We can never be blessed until we learn that we can bring nothing to Christ but our need. “All the fitness He requireth is to feel your need of Him.”<br /><br />For Christ,<br />Meemameemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09104303592278897991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044571629293488418.post-36512099596042901972013-03-29T17:55:19.147-04:002013-03-29T17:55:19.147-04:00Thank you so much for writing this. I have been s...Thank you so much for writing this. I have been struggling with this whole issue about Christian holidays for some time now. This makes perfect sense and certainly clears up a lot of questions and doubt for me. I will be sharing your post with others who, as you say, "make a new religion out of austerity out of their own perceptions of holiness." Which seem to be most noticeable, to me anyway, in the Hebrew Roots movement. I appreciate the depth of their zeal for the Lord and scripture, but there is a lot of swallowing camels and straining at gnats. <br /><br />You are right. The answer lies within each individual and what God places on our heart. So simply, yet eloquently said. Thank you.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com