Divine Dynamite by J.E. Conant

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deacons could do was to kill time while he went from one to another and finally led them all to an intelligent surrender to Christ. Could you have done any better than those deacons did?

Look, once more, at our inner lives.

Look, once more, at our inner lives.

Only here and there in the church can we find those who have entered into the life of victory in Christ, most of the Lord’s people living an up-and-down life that resembles an intermittent fever more than it does a normal Christian experience.

We are perpetually yielding to our besetting temptations—to touchiness, temper, selfishness, jealousy, pride; and it is not the fruit of the Spirit but the works of the flesh that are most manifest in our lives. And when the enemy seeks to overwhelm and defeat us, the hand that held back the Red Sea for the escape of Israel from Pharaoh and his hosts does not seem to be there to hold back the power of Satan and make a way for our escape.

And as to our communion with God, most of us have to look back, and some of us a good ways back, when we seek to recall the brightest hours of our Christian experience, in spite of the promise that the path of the just shall shine more and more unto the perfect day. But instead of enjoying the brightest hours and the closest fellowship with God right now, as would be the case if there were not sin in our lives, most of us are compelled to confess to our condition in the lines of that hymn,

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