Fwd: Gems From My Reading - 4743

We love him, because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19


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From: Norman Hiebert <njhiebert@sympatico.ca>
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"Be of good cheer."

"Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again."

(John 3:7)

No more certain it is that it is something outside the thermometer 

that produces a change in the thermometer, 

than it is something outside the soul of man that produces a moral change upon him.  

That he must be susceptible to that change, that he must be a party to it, goes without saying; 

But that neither his aptitude not his will can produce it, is equally certain. 

Growth is not voluntary, it takes place, it happens, it is wrought upon matter, 

So here, "Ye must be born again" - we cannot born ourselves.  

"Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed."  

We are subjects to a transforming influence, 

We do not transform ourselves.  

(A Thought for Every Day - Henry Drummond)

N.J. Hiebert - 4743