Book Review: Part 3- The Saving Life of Christ by Major W. Ian Thomas

Wow, what a great and refreshing book! This was a quick review of some high points in the book...see part I & II I posted a week or so to get caught up. The books is a very helpful reminder that the key to the victorious Christian life is Christ! Not your zeal...not your efforts...not your skill, good looks or anything else in you! It's Christ Himself Who is the key to success. We should rely on Him to work in and through us to accomplish His sovereign will...after all, He is our strength and our victory.

Too many of us (incl me!) have trusted Him for salvation...and also for our eventual glorification...but unfortunately we seem to take over the sanctification part. Listen to this final quote from the book:

"So you discover that the life which you possess as a born-again Christian is of Him, and it is to Him, and every moment that you are here on earth it must be through Him-- of Him, through Him, to Him, all things! 'I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice' (Rom 12:1).

The Lord Jesus Christ claims the use of your body, your whole being, your complete personality, so that as you give yourself to Him through the eternal Spirit, He may give Himself to you through the eternal Spirit, that all your activity as a human being on earth may be His activity in and through you; that every step you take, every word you speak, everything you do, everything you are, may be an expression of Christ, in you as man."

It's all Christ...let's quit trying to be Him and let Him do His work, His way, in His timing...and for His glory.

Read the book, it's an encouragement!