Martin Black on Substack
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Martin Black on Substack
Here was a human being so filled with and tuned to what they called the Spirit of God that they realized that to know him was to know God.
Until a humility which will rest in nothing less than the end and death of self; which gives up all the honor of men as Jesus did, to seek the honor that comes from God alone; which absolutely makes and counts itself nothing, that God may be all, that the Lord alone may be exalted,until such a humility be what we seek in Christ above our chief joy,
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This is where we discover the experiential meaning of “surrender.”
The image I give is this: two images.
One, Thomas Merton said, “In the moment of your death, you can get all the people in the room with you that you want. They can all climb up in bed with you if you want, but you’re dying alone, and you’re that alone right now. And you’ll never find the intimacy you’re looking for by avoiding it. Because hidden in
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