Friday, October 26, 2012

Under the mastery of one great and predominate affection



“It is seldom that any of our [bad habits or flaws] are made to disappear by a mere process of natural extinction. At least, it is very seldom that this is done through the instrumentality of reasoning… [or by] the mere force of mental determination. But what cannot be thus destroyed maybe dispossessed- and one taste may be made to give way to another, and to lose its power entirely as the reigning affection of the mind… The heart’s… desire for having some one object or other, this is unconquerable… The only way to dispossess the heart of an old affection is by the explosive power of a new one… It is … when admitted into the number of God’s children, through faith that is in Jesus Christ, that the spirit of adoption is poured upon us- it is then that the heart, brought under the mastery of one great and predominate affection, is delivered from the tyranny of its former desires, and is the only way in which deliverance is possible.” 
Thomas Chalmers

'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'  Mark 12:30 

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