Daily Bible Devotional - Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A.B. Simpson http://devotionals.ochristian.com/a-b-simpson-devotional.shtml Copyright oChristian.com 1999-2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-US http://www.oChristian.com/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:06:27 GMT Daily Bible Devotionals http://devotionals.ochristian.com/A.B.-Simpson-Devotional.-Days-of-Heaven-Upon-Earth/0823.shtml http://devotionals.ochristian.com/A.B.-Simpson-Devotional.-Days-of-Heaven-Upon-Earth/0823.shtml Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:06:27 GMT <center><a href="http://devotionals.ochristian.com/a-b-simpson-devotional.shtml"><font size="+2" color=red><b>Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A.B. Simpson</b></font></a><BR><b>Devotional for <a href="http://devotionals.ochristian.com/A.B.-Simpson-Devotional.-Days-of-Heaven-Upon-Earth/0823.shtml">Sunday August 23, 2026</a></b></center><P><img src="http://devotionals.ochristian.com/images/simpson_title.jpg" width=150 height=165 border=1 align=right style="padding:3px; border:1px solid black;" hspace=10 vspace=15><BR><i>"Even as He is pure" (I. John iii. 3).</i><BR><BR>God is now aiming to reproduce in us the pattern which has already appeared in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The Christian life is not an imitation of Christ, but a direct new creation in Christ, and the union with Christ is so complete that He imparts His own nature to us and lives His own life in us and then it is not an imitation, but simply the outgrowth of the nature implanted within.<BR><BR>We live Christ-like because we have the Christ-life. God is not satisfied with anything less than perfection. He required that from His Son. He requires it from us, and He does not, in the process of grace, reduce the standard, but He brings us up to it.<BR><BR>He does not let down the righteousness of the law, but He requires of us a righteousness that far exceeds the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, and then He imparts it to us. He counts us righteous in sanctification, and He says of the new creation, "He that doeth righteousness is righteous even as He is righteous."<BR><BR>Lord, live out thy very life in me.<hr><center><a href="http://devotionals.ochristian.com/"><font size="+1"><b>View more daily devotionals online.</b></font></center> This is an RSS feed and is intended to be read in a feedreader. Copy this feed URL: (http://devotionals.ochristian.com/rss_simpson.cgi) and paste it into your feedreader. For an online version of this devotional, go to http://devotionals.ochristian.com/a-b-simpson-devotional.shtml