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Updated: May 21, 2025
This is what I mean by a Father-pleasing life. It was truly the consecrated life, consecrated to His Father's emergency plan for His world. It was the surrendered life, wholly given up to the one passionate plan of His Father's broken heart for His earth family. Now, His "Follow Me" does not mean imitation.
That is to say, the motives and desires of the upper life are to be dominant in my daily round. It is the Father-pleasing life as contrasted with the natural life, of which we talked a while ago. Wherever the two come in conflict, the upper is to rule. Now, I know this rather runs across the grain of a good deal of our so-called Christian life.
It will mean that the music of His will and ours swinging rhythmically together in all things shall sweep our lives even as the strong wind the young saplings. This was the second trait in our Lord Jesus' character upward, He lived the Father-pleasing life. To some it will seem like a further step a fourth step downward in His humility. And it was. The way up is down.
There are three possible lives open to every man's choice: a bad life, in which selfishness or passion or both, either refined or coarse, rule; a good, true, natural life; and a Father-pleasing life. By a good, true, natural life I mean, just now, a really Christian life in all that that means, but lived as if there were no emergency in the world to change one's habit of life.
And he goes an even, contented round of life, home, church, club, recreation and so on, year in and out, holding and using the great bulk of his money for himself. I think of that as one illustration of the good, true, natural life. Now, the Father-pleasing life is radically different in certain things. Ordinarily the two would be identical.
It was an emergency life, a life fitted to His Father's plan, and so the Father-pleasing life. He became a homeless man, with all that that means. Would any man have enjoyed home-life with all the rare home-joys, the sweetest of all natural joys, so much as He?
But from the time when He came in amongst us as Jesus, our Brother, the typical Son of man, He was marking out afresh the original road for our feet. This was the foundation trait in His character. He lived the dependent life. A Father-pleasing Life. The second trait in His upward relation was this He chose to live a Father-pleasing life. I use those words because He used them.
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