The Spiritual Man

Affection 441 God. Our soul life, as it experiences death, loses its power and becomes as much as dead in the matter of affectio ...

442 The Spiritual Man God and loves himself as well as others for God’s sake: he can therefore love others as his very self. Let ...

Affection 443 suffering seems to have touched his heart, but its inner truth has not affected his life. How powerless is the suf ...

444 The Spiritual Man glory of God has blinded his physical eyes. Furthermore, a person who experiences such .love as this becom ...

Affection 445 do so will bring damage to his spiritual life. Various spiritual experiences are apportioned to different steps in ...

446 The Spiritual Man than that by the opposite sex. For some psychological reason there is overwhelmingly more attraction to th ...

Affection 447 we know our soul life has ruled in that area. Where our affection is unable to yield fully to God’s will, much uns ...

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(^3 3) Desire Desire Occupies the largest part of our emotional life: it joins forces with our will to rebel against God’s will. ...

450 The Spiritual Man A Believer’s Natural Desires Pride springs from desire. Man aspires to obtain a place for himself that he ...

Desire 451 However good, praiseworthy and effective one’s walk and labor may appear to be, if they are motivated by his ambition ...

452 The Spiritual Man accepts the demand of the cross in consigning his soulish emotion to death that he may live utterly for th ...

Desire 453 Christian must commit his precipitate emotions to death. Each time emotion demands hurry we should tell ourselves: “E ...

454 The Spiritual Man people to commit all matters into His hand and not defend themselves. How we like to speak on our own beha ...

Desire 455 Him its all sufficiency. The power to welcome and endure solitude is the spirit’s power. When we locate human ways by ...

456 The Spiritual Man with His will? Because it is still our own desire. For if we are allowed to obey our good aspirations, doe ...

Desire 457 The practical cross which God dispenses runs counter to our desires. The cross aims at crucifying them. Nothing in ou ...

458 The Spiritual Man God. His life has now become quite simple: he has no expectations, no requests, no ambitions other than to ...

Desire 459 you will find rest for your souls” (Matt. 11.29). The soul here alludes especially to the emotional part of our being ...

460 The Spiritual Man him. Since he is now filled, he has no more requests to make. A life such as this can be summed up in one ...