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True Faith Must Influence Our Daily Living

True Faith Must Influence Our Daily Living

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me. Galatians 2:20

"Things have come to a pretty pass," said a famous Englishman testily, "when
religion is permitted to interfere with our private lives."

To which we may reply that things have come to a worse pass when an
intelligent man living in a Protestant country could make such a remark. Had
this man never read the New Testament? Had he never heard of Stephen? or
Paul? or Peter? Had he never thought about the millions who followed Christ
cheerfully to violent death, sudden or lingering, because they did allow
their religion to interfere with their private lives?

But we must leave this man to his conscience and his Judge and look into our
own hearts. Maybe he but expressed openly what some of us feel secretly.
Just how radically has our religion interfered with the neat pattern of our
own lives? Perhaps we had better answer that question first.

One picture of a Christian is a man carrying a cross: "If any man will come
after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."

The man with the cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when
he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an
all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. There is but one thing
he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion!

A. W. Tozer
From: Renewed Day by Day, Volume One

May the Lord richly bless your day,

Kris M.