"Taught Practices" are powerless and lifeless

6/4/2005

“Taught practices” are powerless and lifeless. Jesus, if YIELDED to, will take us FAR past feigned righteousness and dead works, into HIS LIFE AND OBEDIENCE from the heart. : )

“Until,” says William Law, “you are renewed in the spirit of your mind, your virtues are only taught practices and grafted upon a corrupt bottom. Everything that you do will be a mixture of good and bad; your humility will help you to pride; your charity to others will give nourishment to your own self-love, and as your prayers increase so will the opinion of your own sanctity. Because till the heart is purified to the bottom, and has felt the axe at the root of its evil (which cannot be done by outward instruction), everything that proceeds from it partakes of its impurity and corruption.”

“Taught practices” are powerless and lifeless. Jesus, if YIELDED to, will take us FAR past feigned righteousness and dead works, into HIS LIFE AND OBEDIENCE, from the heart. : )