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Consuming Fire Daily Devotional

George MacDonald
February 16, 2019

The Heart with the Treasure

George MacDonald
February 16, 2019
The Heart with the Treasure

.....it applies equally to those who in any way worship the transitory, who seek the praise of men more than the praise of God, who would make a show in the world by taste, intellect, power, art, or genius of any kind. 

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George MacDonald
February 15, 2019

The Heart with the Treasure

George MacDonald
February 15, 2019
The Heart with the Treasure

....one day you will be compelled to see, nay, to feel your heart as God sees it, and to know ....

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George MacDonald
February 14, 2019

The Heart with the Treasure

George MacDonald
February 14, 2019
The Heart with the Treasure

The Son came forth to be, before our eyes and in our hearts, that which he had made us for, that we might behold the truth in him, and cry out for the loving God, who, in the highest sense of all is The Truth....

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George MacDonald
February 13, 2019

The New Name

George MacDonald
February 13, 2019
The New Name

To one who has not already had some speech with God, or at least felt some aspiration towards the fount of his being, all this will appear foolishness. So be it. But Lord, help them and us, and make our being grow into thy likeness. 

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George MacDonald
February 12, 2019

The New Name

George MacDonald
February 12, 2019
The New Name

..I am his, his idea, his making; perfect in my kind, yea, perfect in his sight; full of him, revealing him, alone with him. Let him call me what he will. The name shall be precious as my life. I seek no more.”

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George MacDonald
February 11, 2019

The New Name

George MacDonald
February 11, 2019
The New Name

What an end lies before us! To have a consciousness of our own ideal being flashed into us from the thought of God!

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George MacDonald
February 10, 2019

The New Name

George MacDonald
February 10, 2019
The New Name

With every man He has a secret—the secret of the new name. In every man there is a loneliness, an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter...

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George MacDonald
February 9, 2019

The New Name

George MacDonald
February 9, 2019
The New Name

The giving of the white stone with the new name is the communication of what God thinks about the man to the man...

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George MacDonald
February 8, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
February 8, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

My friends, I offer this as only a contribution towards the understanding of our Lord’s words. But if we ask him, he will lead us into all truth. And let us not be afraid to think, for he will not take it ill. 

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George MacDonald
February 7, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
February 7, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

I think, when Judas fled from his hanged and fallen body, he fled to the tender help of Jesus, and found it—I say not how. I believe Jesus loved Judas even when he was kissing him with the traitor’s kiss,... 

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George MacDonald
February 6, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
February 6, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

Who shall set bounds to the consuming of the fire of our God, and the purifying that dwells therein?

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George MacDonald
February 5, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
February 5, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

To return to Luke 12:10: is the refusal of forgiveness contained in it a condemnation to irrecoverable impenitence? Strange righteousness would be the decree that because a man has done wrong, he shall forever remain wrong!

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George MacDonald
February 4, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
February 4, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

There are two sins, both of spiritual condition, which cannot be forgiven; that is, which cannot be excused, passed by, made little of by the tenderness even of God, inasmuch as they will allow no forgiveness to come into the soul, they will permit no good influence to go on working alongside of them; they shut God out altogether...

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George MacDonald
February 3, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
February 3, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

When a man’s evil is fading out of him, and he is growing better and better, that is the forgiveness coming into him more and more...

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George MacDonald
February 2, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
February 2, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

God is forgiving us every day, sending from between him and us our sins and their fogs and darkness...

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George MacDonald
February 1, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
February 1, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

Let us consider human forgiveness as between a father and a son. For although God is so much more to us, yet fatherhood is the last height of the human stair whence our understanding can see him afar off...

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George MacDonald
January 31, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
January 31, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

One man will say, “I forgive, but I cannot forget. Let the fellow never come in my sight again!” This is a sending away of the penalties which the wronged believes he can claim from the wrong-doer. But there is no sending away of the wrong itself from between them...

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George MacDonald
January 30, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
January 30, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

Our Lord had no design of constructing a system of truth in intellectual forms. The truth of the moment in its relation to him, The Truth, was what he spoke. He spoke out of a region of realities which he knew could only be suggested, not represented, in the forms of intellect and speech. His words invade our darkness with vivid flashes of life and truth...

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George MacDonald
January 29, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
January 29, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

To mistake the meaning of the Son of man may well fill a man with sadness. But to care so little for him as to receive as his what the noblest part of our nature rejects as low and poor, or selfish and wrong, that surely is more like the sin against the Holy Ghost that can never be forgiven, for it is a sin against the truth itself...

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George MacDonald
January 28, 2019

It Shall Not Be Forgiven

George MacDonald
January 28, 2019
It Shall Not Be Forgiven

Better to refuse even the truth for a time, than, by accepting into our intellectual creed that which our heart cannot receive, not seeing its real form, to introduce hesitation into our prayers and a misery into our love. 

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