Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Love Righteousness, Hate Iniquity

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him" (2 Corinthians 5:21)

I am happy to tell everyone that the power of the Spirit is glad power! Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, lived His beautiful, holy life on earth and did Hid healing, saving deeds of power in the strength of this oil of gladness.

We must admit that there was more of the holy oil of God on the head of Jesus than on your head or mine - or on the head of anyone else who has ever lived. That is not to say that God will withhold His best from anyone. But the Spirit of God can only anoint in proportion to the willingness He finds in our lives.

In the case of Jesus, we are told that He had a special anointing because He loved righteousness and hated iniquity. That surely gives us the clue we need concerning the kind of persons we must be in order to receive the full anointing and blessing from Almighty God.

I claim nothing and my testimony is the same as Martin Luther's prayer: "Oh, Lord Jesus, Thou art my righteousness - I am Thy sin!" The only sin Jesus had was mine, Luther's and yours - and the only righteousness we can ever have is His.

`A. W. Tozer~

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