{"id":4337,"date":"2009-05-25T21:46:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T01:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/200\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-05-25T21:46:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T01:46:03","slug":"abandonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/05\/25\/abandonment\/","title":{"rendered":"ABANDONMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Then Peter began to say unto Him, Lo, we have left all,
\n and have followed Thee… .<\/p>\n

— Mark 10:28<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our Lord replies in effect, that abandonment is for Himself, and not
\nfor what the disciples themselves will get from it. Beware of an
\nabandonment which has the commercial spirit in it – “I am going to
\ngive myself to God because I want to be delivered from sin, because I
\nwant to be made holy.” All that is the result of being right with
\nGod, but that spirit is not of the essential nature of Christianity.
\nAbandonment is not for anything at all. We have got so commercialized
\nthat we only go to God for something from Him, and not for Himself.
\nIt is like saying, “No, Lord, I don’t want Thee, I want myself; but I
\nwant myself clean and filled with the Holy Ghost; I want to be put in
\nThy show room and be able to say – ‘This is what God has done for
\nme.'” If we only give up something to God because we want more back,
\nthere is nothing of the Holy Spirit in our abandonment; it is
\nmiserable commercial self-interest. That we gain heaven, that we are
\ndelivered from sin, that we are made useful to God – these things
\nnever enter as considerations into real abandonment, which is a
\npersonal sovereign preference for Jesus Christ Himself.<\/p>\n

When we come up against the barriers of natural relationship, where
\nis Jesus Christ? Most of us desert Him – “Yes, Lord, I did hear Thy
\ncall; but my mother is in the road, my wife, my self-interest, and I
\ncan go no further.” “Then,” Jesus says, “you cannot be My disciple.”<\/p>\n

The test of abandonment is always over the neck of natural devotion.
\nGo over it, and God’s own abandonment will embrace all those you had
\nto hurt in abandoning. Beware of stopping short of abandonment to
\nGod. Most of us know abandonment in vision only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Then Peter began to say unto Him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed Thee… . — Mark 10:28 Our Lord replies in effect, that abandonment is for Himself, and not for what the disciples themselves will get from it. Beware of an abandonment which has the commercial spirit in it – “I am…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}