is more beautiful than anything the devil can offer. When we have the love and grace of God in our hearts, and our horizon filled with His glory, we experi ence something new, which the world cannot give. That is reckoning ourselves dead unto sin and alive unto God. It is the way of victory.
better music on the ships than that which the sirens sang. It worked; the sailors lost their desire to plunge head long to certain death. That is what I mean by being dead to sin. It is not a sacrificial thing. It is not giving up joys and pleasures. The music the Lord puts in the human heart
THE WAY OF VICTORY By Louis T. Talbot, D.D. In Romans 6:11 we read: “ Reckon ye . . . yourselves . . . dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” This is our standing before God, and I we are called upon to reckon on this fact day by day. To reckon is to take a certain thing into account, to act as if it were true because God says it is so. Even if you do not see the evidence of its being true, act upon it. This doctrinal truth is in- tensly practical and real, not mythical. Some years after I was converted, I kept trying to die to sin, but certain tendencies kept bothering me. My heart was filled with the very thing over which I wanted victory. Then one day I dis covered that I did not have to die, God said, “ You are already dead. When Christ hung on Calvary, you died.” I began to see what Paul meant when he said, “ I am crucified with Christ.” In God’s estimation all believers hung on the cross with Christ. You and I are to reckon on this one great fact. When Satan tempts us, we are to tell him we are dead to sin, that he is no longer our master. But some may say, “ That is a difficult thing. Must I reckon myself dead and buried? This world has attractive allurements. It is pleasant, and I hate to reckon myself dead.” It is not . hard if we take God’s way of reckoning. Let me illustrate from the old myth: You remember the tale of the alluring sirens who sang so beautifully on the rocks ashore that the sailors wanted to steer the ships in their direction. The captain tried to turn them from their purpose. He put something in their ears to keep out the sound. He even tied the sailors to the mast. But his efforts failed until it finally occurred to him to put Something More There is something more than helpless Humanism for a goal, There are heights as transcendental As the hunger of the soul. There is something more than order In the cycle of the spheres; There is vision, music, dreaming, There is timelessness—and tears. There is something more than music, More than poetry and art; Something more than death and dogma; There’s a broken, contrite heart. There is something more than learning, Something more than strife and gain, Something more than mere survival; There is sacrifice and pain. There is something more than nature, More than surf, and sun, and sod; There are wounds, and nails, and crosses; There is faith—and Christ—and God. —William L. Stidger.
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