Excerpt from book:
Open Letter to His Majesty and Excellency Christ-Jesus
TRANSFORMATION – Part 5 (Continuation from Part 4) (Open Letter pages 33-34).
(3) A few that have not only outwardly grown up but stepped on that narrow road (Mt.7:14) and have been or are being transformed into Your image (Rom.8:29). Transformed from smaller glory to greater glory (2Cor.3:18). Transformed slowly and painfully – but transformed. They alone are Your true Overcomers! The stones and boulders, which are fortresses of Satan in us, are being overturned and destroyed … and the venomous snakes, rats and scorpions killed and burned one by one! No wonder, Lord, that these Christians are recipients of unexpected shocks, sledgehammer strokes, stresses and strains … and then they burn all over their being as if thrown into a furnace. And we, indeed, are thrown from one furnace to another, that all the snakes and rats and scorpions and spiders and bats, even mosquitos that can suck the other brother’s blood, may all be burned within us and we may be refined as pure gold. Only thus shall we come forth without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish (Eph.5:27). Only thus we shall be able to work out our OWN salvation, that is to say, the RENEWAL of our very OWN SELVES, our OWN SOULS.
Only thus You, Lord, will be able to work in us both to will and to do Your good pleasure. That is to say, we will start to be willing and we will start to be doing that which will finally and truly please God! (Phil.2:12-13). Only thus shall we be able to tailor our OWN robe of righteousness (Rev.19:8), which is our OWN wedding gown, without which nobody shall enter into Your Kingdom (Mt.22:11-14). Only thus shall we be filling our OWN vessels, that is to say, our OWN souls with oil, which is Your Spirit (Mt.25:1-12), and replacing the old man with a matured new man.
brother Hanola
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