The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-13


selves to his Transforming power
and grace. "A new heart will |
give you and a new spirit will |
put within you--I will put my
spirit within you and cause you
to walk in my statues and ye
shall keep my judgments, and do
them" He transforms our de-
sires by the power of his love.
'The love of Christ constraineth
us; because we thus Judge that
if one died for all then were all
dead; and that he died for all that
they which live should not hence
forth live unto themselves, bnt
unto him which died for them,
and rose again" When his love
is shed abroad in our hearts by
the Holy Ghost which is given un-
to us, and percolates down into
the deepest springs of our nature,
and teammates our whole being
then we are constrained to say,
"I love the Lord because he hath
heard my voice and my supplica-
ton. And when we thus love
him our desires will be tp do what
is pleasing to him. And when
we love him we will likewise love
our fellowmen and then our de-
sires will be to do them good.
And then again when we open the
door and he comesin in tous and sups
with us and we with him, and we,
by faith, live with him; as Peter
says, Whom having not seen ye
love in whom though now ye see
him not yet believing ye rejoice
with JOY unspeakable and full of
glory" &c. We grow more like
him. You know when young
people live along with older per-
sons whom they highly esteem
and admire, they unconciously
learn to initiate them and grow
in character like them.
So we, living in fellowship with
Christ, loving and admiring him,
take his character. AS Paul says,
eve all with unveiled face behold
ing as in a mirror the glory of
| the Lord are transformed into the
same image from glory TO glory
even as from the Lord the spirit. -
And as we grow into his likeness
we learn to love what he loves and
hate what he hate, to seek What
he seeks and to desire what he
desires. And when this comes
to pass, then our desires will be
normal and will be realized. -
Then, again, when we submit our
selves to him, we accept him as
our teacher. Then one of the
first things that he teaches us is
to pray. 81 will pour out upon the
house of David and the inhabi
tants of Jerusalem the spirit OF
grace and Of supplications.
Just as Jesus taught US to say,
"Our Father who art in heaven.
And so having received the spirit
of adoption 1--WE cry Abba, Fa.
ther." But prayer is simply
expression of our desires. And
we see that his spirit gets right
down into the very root of our
desires. "And we know not what
weshould pray for as we ought but
the spirit itself maketh interces
sion for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered" So you sec
he does not suppress desires ii
us but greatly intensifies and
multiplies them in us. He says,
ASK and ye shall receive. "
"And whatsoever ye shall ask in
my name that will | do. T." eff We
shall ask anything in my name,
| will do it" Thus he encourages
and quickens our desires until
we are ready to say, Because
he hath inclined his ear unto me
therefore will l call upon him as
long as l live!" So you see he sc
moulds our desires that they can
be and are satisfied by his abun-
dant grace.
Then God has another way OF
Transforming our perverted de
sires, by giving to US inspiring
anticipations through the wealth
Of his promises. Or as Peter ex
presses it, Exceeding great and
precious promises that by these
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