None but the Hungry Heart

  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ" (Gal. 3:27).

The Holy Spirit baptizes us into the Lord Jesus, and fills us with Him.

"The one spiritual baptism positions the believer in Christ' (Rom. 6:3;

But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies" (Lam. 3:32).

We are going to discover that our Father's grace and mercy shine brightest against the darkness of the daily Cross.

"We make a most serious mistake, when, in any time of...

I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly unto her" (Hosea 2:14).

As we begin to grow, we are governed; as we begin to mature, we are allured.

"By trial our Father reveals whether we can suffer His will as well as do it. By trial He weans us from the world, draws us to His Son,...

That I may know Him, and the power of the resurrection (Philippians 3:10a).

Fellowship with the written Word is the foundation, and fellowship with the living Word is the superstructure, for spiritual growth.

"While Martha was cumbered about much serving, and her love, most true in its way, went forth in...

I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:12).

To know our position in the Lord Jesus is necessary so that we may understand His ways and rest in His means. Then, by processing through the years He slowly narrows the discrepancy between our heavenly position and our personal condition....

Hath made us alive together with Christ" (Eph. 2:5).

The Father has placed us in His very heart, and He intends for our heart to find its place there.

"Think of the fast embrace with which I find myself held, right to the heart of my Father, when I discern my position in His Beloved Son. Grace, absolute sovereign...

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us" (Rom. 8:18).

Physical, mental, and spiritual suffering are all involved to some degree in our matriculation.

"The idea is very common amongst Christians that it is a great and wonderful...

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (Rom. 7:24).

While both are essential, it is far more difficult to get to know the old man than it is to know the Lord Jesus. Many who know something of Him, know little or nothing of themselves.

"There is not a more difficult lesson in...

Set your affection on things above. . . for ye died and your life is hidden with Christ in God" (Col 3:2; 3)

The spiritual recession that occurs after the early joys of the new birth is not necessarily backsliding at all. The discovery of the sinful old man is the first and foremost...

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty" (Gal. 5:13).   

Our "No" to the old will be absolutely ineffective unless we are standing upon the facts of the new.

"At the Cross the old man was crucified and buried. When I plant my feet on that fact and say, No, as for me, I...

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus" (Heb. 10:19).

We enter our Father's presence when we believe He has already positioned us there in His Son.

"The Lord Jesus' work on the Cross gave us present entrance into the Holiest of All. What removed our sins rent the veil;...

Alive unto God in Jesus Christ, our Lord" (Rom. 6:11)

Until the believer's faith is firmly established in the fact of his position in the risen Lord Jesus, he will not be able to rest in Him during the process of his position becoming his condition. One must be sure of the Source before he can trust for the growth.

The Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort" (2 Cor. 1:3).

Affliction provides opportunity for us to learn more of our Father in His mercy, as well as providing a deeper understanding of what others may be called upon to go through.

"Many saints have been happy to assert that they would not have missed for...

For when for a time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food" (Heb. 5:12).

It is a great comfort, during our growing up in the Lord Jesus, to know that He is our perfect provision, and that He provides the perfect...