Every Virtue I Possess Is His Alone

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"...and they shall call His name Immanual..." - [Matthew 1:23]  He is a being for whom the human race can take no credit at all.  When i was born again, His birth is in me.  He came into me from the outside, just as He came into the world.  From the outside.  i must be born again is a fact, not a command.


I must walk in the light as He is in the light. - [1 John 1:7] My natural life must submit to the spiritual.   i must be in a continual conversion every day walking in the light or be in bondage.  i must measure up by His light.  Confidence in my own natural virtues can only cause back-sliding.  Every virtue i possess is His alone.  i know You require an account of what is past.  i will not go out with haste.  i will let the Lord go before me.

You ask and do not receive because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. - [James 4:3]  You know, Heavenly Father, what i was asking for in Your Timber Creek back on 29DEC20...boy! was i ever asking amiss!  You help me to be wise and to come out of the darkness and into the light, so i can see You.  i already know You can see me in the darkness.  i pray that each one in that submersible accepted Your Son as Savior.  Perhaps one day we can have a chat and they can tell me what glorious tings they saw before their end.  Perhaps they saw angels swimming toward them.  

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