Days of Heaven Upon Earth

Devotional For

May 18

      "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. 3).
      
      Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves.
      
      It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. The church is full of half dead people who have been trying, like poor Nero, to slay themselves for years, and have not had the courage to strike the fatal blow.
      
      Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus' feet, and let Him do it, there would be accomplishment and rest.
      
      On that cross He has provided for our death as well as our life, and our part is just to let His death be applied to our nature just as it has been to our old sins, and then leave it with Him, think no more about it, and count it dead, not recognizing it any longer as ourselves, but another, refusing to listen or fear it, to be identified with it, or even try to cleanse it, but counting it utterly in His hands, and dead to us forever, and for all our new life depending on Him at every breath, as a babe just born depends upon its mother's life.