Post by Eli Brayley on May 8, 2008 10:10:25 GMT -7
"Death does not only mean the morbid cessation of life where the pulse ceases. Death is any kind of restriction or cessation that is contrary to life and to its flow. Depression is a form of death. Fear, insecurity, self-consciousness—anything that restricts the life of God is death. I appreciate the English writer T. Austin Sparks, who after a lifetime of searching the word and being one of God’s most commendable spokesmen, said that after a lifetime of being occupied with the issues of God, he had finally come to the conclusion that everything was a contest between life and death. Are we as sufficiently conscious of that conflict? Perhaps we would not give ourselves as readily as we do to the forms of death which we touch and handle and express."