“Have You Died Lately?”
“Have You Died Lately?”
” … I die daily.” I Corinthians 15:31b
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) profoundly said, “If I do
not put to death the things in me which are not of God, they
will put to death the things in me that are of God.”
Ask Adam. His desire to be what he wasn’t and Eve’s
desire to do what she shouldn’t put the entire existing and
future human family in a mess! Remember, God did not create
Adam holy; he created him innocent. There is a vast
difference, kind of like the difference between a three-day old
baby and a thirty-year old, grown man. Sadly, a new baby’s
innocence often becomes a young person’s insolence and a
grown-up adult’s indifference to holiness and right. One’s
flesh seems to have a disposition to sin, thus, the desire to do
wrong. In contrast, the godly man, that is saved, sanctified,
and separated, however, is NEVER sanctimonious, but is real
and natural in the light of His spiritual awakening. I will insert
here this singular struggle in every child of God: it is NOT
impossible to sin, but it is also possible NOT to sin!
The earthly, eternal battle is always within. Oswald
Chambers also profoundly wrote: “Too much of me, erases
HIM-Enough of HIM erases me!” May God help us to rise to
the occasion or sink to the depths of being consumed to the
delightsome duty of dying daily! See you at the cemetery of
self. – T.G.
Prepared by Roger Fulk, from excerpts from the “Baptist Bread” March 25, 2025, devotional by author Dr. Tim Green, Revival In Our Time, Day Heights, OH. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread.
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