Gleanings 262

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The religion of a country does not deal with the question that the heart of an individual wants life. You hear of persons belonging to churches, without life: but that will not do for God-it is not the incorruptible seed. Adam in the garden of Eden was corruptible, but if a man is born again he is born of incorruptible seed. Like a little seed dropt into the ground, there it is in me, something formed within me, that cannot be corrupted, cannot see death. If called to be absent from the body, the body must go down to the grave, but the life God gives can never die. I dwelt for nineteen years in the things of the world, dead in sin, never alive then. And then I found Christ as my living Savior in heaven, and I got a life that could only be occupied by Him. I found too that I had got a Father up there-not only an incorruptible seed, but I dwell in God, and not only that, God dwells in me. He makes our bodies to be temples of the Holy Ghost; and in Eph. 3:19, we remark a larger expression: " Filled with all the fullness of God." What love! God thus dwelling in me and I in Him now, and heaven opened for me to dwell eternally with Him.