A Selah Moment...

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God is bringing us into a more critical day of study. And because each of us

has been called we realize we have a particular and peculiar relationship

with one another through Jesus Christ. If we find agreement in that then it

is imperative that we know what God desires of us and what we may

expect of each other. We are to be ready for the heat. How best can the

Holy Spirit work in us than to line us up with God’s will? We are to be

sanctified and sealed. We will need much strength and interceding on our

behalf. We must be reminded of from where God brought us to faithfully

attain to where He wants us. Our source of revelation, wisdom, and power

cannot be of this world…we must always be thinking heavenwardly. We are

to be determined that by life or death, Jesus will be magnified in our lives.

The Holy Spirit will lead and empower us in a development to learn

obedience to the Word of God in our sufferings and be led to perfection.

Ours is an amazing calling. Every experience that we have gone through in

our life screams out thank you God for seeing me through in my time of

weakness. Let us humble ourselves deeply under God’s mighty hand,

through the leading of His Spirit, so grace comes over us. Let’s meditate on

the things given us that our progress may be evident to all.

God desires that we accept His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as our Savior.

He desires that we give our lives to Him, and in so doing, develop the

character of Christ. God desires that we become more like Christ. God

desires our love with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. God desires

that we act justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly. God desires that

we give a balanced answer to those who enquire of Him.

We should expect the recognition of truth in one another. We should expect

the recognition of sin that we may pray for and consult for others, with

others, and one another. We should expect the continual examination of

self. We should expect a principled relationship with each other. We should

expect a continuing faith and a bold witness for Christ to be our grounding.

We should expect our hearts to be a safe harbor of love for one another.

If you cannot accept personal truth today, know this…the panoramic view

of judgment will show every defect in character. God will ask each one the

question, what have you done with my only-begotten Son? What will those

answer who have refused to accept the truth?

Reason must not be based upon sentiment and private emotional

reactions. Particular points of view may encounter contradictions but

reasoning with spiritual discernment will enable truthful communication

avoiding any reflection upon character. Know that the principle of love is

godliness. All moral evaluations are to be considered in the light of the love

for truth and the hatred for sin rendering the highest spiritual sanction for an

imagined logic. We must all progress deeper into the mysteries of the

sublime truth given to us in the word of God. Our need of the hour…the

righteousness of Christ. And by what means may our God provide for our

gain? How is it that the word of God reveals the spirit that is within man? By

honing the countenance of a friend and impressing the thoughts of the

mind without disturbing a single eyelash, or one beat of the heart…let God

do the awakening.

SOP - God does not send messengers to flatter the sinner. He delivers no

message of peace to lull the unsanctified into fatal security. He lays heavy

burdens upon the conscience of the wrongdoer, and pierces the soul with

arrows of conviction. The ministering angels present to him the fearful

judgments of God to deepen the sense of need, and prompt the cry, “What

must I do to be saved?” Then the hand that has humbled in the dust, lifts

up the penitent. The voice that has rebuked sin, and put to shame pride

and ambition, inquires with tenderest sympathy, “What wilt thou that I shall

do unto thee?” {DA 104.1}

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