To receive is NOT to accept …

I started a new book this morning … A.W. Tozer’s Faith Beyond Reason.

Wow! You know it’s a good book when even in the first few chapters you’re reading words you don’t know and learning things (or remembering things) that are IMPORTANT.

Like this …

John 1:11-13 says this:

He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God–children born not of natural descent, nor or human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

Did you know that the word “receive” is not passive? Not just “acceptance.”

That in the Greek, the word “receive” is active.

Tozer says this could be translated:

“As many as aggressively took Him with their total personality …” Every part of their being became a hand reaching forth for Jesus Christ. They took Jesus as SAvior and Lord will all of their will and affections and feelings and intellect.”

Now THAT’S something to think about as I board my second of three flights today.

🙂 !!

Love to you all,
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