GIVE GOD THE CONTROL

         By A. W. Tozer
 

         Make me to go in the path of thy commandments,
         for therein do I delight.                - - Psalm 119:35
 

             I know that I am being repetitious-­but this needs to be
         said again and again:  our Lord will not save those whom
         He cannot command!

             The lifetime God has given us down here is a lifetime of
         decisions.  Each person makes his own decisions as to the
         eternal world he is going to inhabit.

                 We must decide to take Jesus for what He is -­ the
         anointed Savior and Lord who is King of kings and
         Lord of all lords!

             He would not be who He is, if He saved us and called us
         without the understanding, that He can also guide us and
         control our lives.

            The root of sin is rebellion against God, and hell is the
         Alcatraz for the unconstituted rebels who refuse to
         surrender to the will of God.

             There are many arguments about the reality of hell.  A
         man might endure fire and brimstone and worms -­ but
         the essence of hell and judgment for a moral creature is to
         know and be conscious that he is where he is because he
         is a rebel!

           Hell will be the eternal domain of all the disobedient
         rebels who have said, "I owe God nothing!"
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         Yours in Christ,
         Paul N. F.