Spiritual Wisdom

[jiggyfly]

-In order to arrive at having pleasure in everything,
Desire to have pleasure in nothing.
-In order to arrive at possessing everything,
Desire to possess nothing.
-In order to arrive at being everything,
Desire to be nothing.
-In order to arrive at a knowledge of everything,
Desire to know nothing.
-In order to arrive at that wherein thou hast no pleasure,
Thou must go by a way wherein thou hast no pleasure.
-In order to arrive at that which thou knowest not,
Thou must go by a way that thou knowest not.
-In order to arrive at that which thou possessest not,
Thou must go by a way that thou possessest not.
-In order to arrive at that which thou art not,
Thou must go through that which thou art not.

St. John of the Cross

 

[Coconut]

Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
"Set your affection.
Not "your affections."
Tie them up into one bundle. Make one of them.
Christianity is a heart religion, and if you cannot say, from the very depths of your being, "Christ is all," you have neither part nor lot in the blessings and privileges of the gospel, and your end will be destruction, everlasting banishment from the presence of the Lord.
God grant it may not be so; but that in both your lives and mine we may each be enabled to say of a truth, "Christ is all"; and that we may meet again around the eternal throne!" -- Spurgeon