Every spiritual battle is lost or won before God, in the secret places of the will, never first out in the world. Whenever I am faced with a moral dilemma, God\u2019s Spirit apprehends me and obliges me to get alone with God and fight it out. If I don\u2019t do this before I try to fight the battle in the external world, I\u2019ll lose every time. The battle may take one minute or one year\u2014how long depends on me, not on God. But it must be wrestled out first before him. Alone in his presence, I must go through the hell of a renunciation.<\/p>\n
Nothing has power over the person who has fought and won a battle before God. If I say, \u201cI\u2019ll wait till I get out into the world, then put God to the test,\u201d I\u2019ll find that I can\u2019t. I must settle the matter between myself and God first, in the secret places of my soul where no stranger intermeddles. Afterward, I can go forth with the certainty that the battle is won. But if I lose the battle in my will, calamity and disaster are sure to follow.<\/p>\n
Abandonment to God always begins as an issue of will. Every now and then\u2014not often, but sometimes\u2014God brings us to a milestone, a point that marks a great divide in our lives. Either we go on from that point toward a more and more useless type of Christian life, or we become more and more ablaze for the glory of God, more and more our utmost for his highest.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Setiap peperangan rohani kalah atau menang di hadapan Allah, di tempat rahasia kehendak-Nya, tidak pernah muncul pertama kali di dunia. Setiap kali saya dihadapkan pada dilema moral, Roh Tuhan ...<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2460,"template":"","collection":[],"class_list":["post-2793","modern-classic","type-modern-classic","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}