These are
the times that tests our soul, our innermost being. Each decision I make is weighted with eternal
consequences. As never before our
destiny is being decided by the choices we make today. I wish I could say these words with the force
with which they are impressed upon my mind.
We allow ourselves to be so easily
distracted. The devil doesn't have to
work to get us. It is more like he just
plays with us. Like babies we are so easily
amused. A little feather to our nose, a little poke in the belly -- and we lose any
thought of what we might have been concerned about and become lost in laughter
and hilarity. Or perhaps a frown from
someone and we lose our sense of joy and start crying and screaming thinking we
have been terribly abused. We have all seen babies and how they react to such
small things, yet I am afraid we are still babies in our similar reactions, though we look like adults.
It is past time that we grow up in
Christ. God is able to make us
spiritually adults a lot faster than we are willing, He wants to lead us faster
and farther than we have yet developed.
That is why we are not yet in heaven.
Jesus would have come already but He waits for us to become sincere in
our desire to get there. However, we are
now in the time and place spoken of by all the prophets of God. The times of ease and prosperity are
gone. The blessings of God have been
despised. Greed and violence have become
the norm. The lessons God wanted us to
learn in peace will have to be learned among storms and tragedy.
Too many of us are taking on the
temperature of our surroundings. In
physics the second law of thermodynamics says:
without outside intervention, everything eventually reaches a state of equilibrium. Over time everything would become mush, with
a lukewarm temperature. This is what Satan is trying to accomplish
with us today. He wants all the world to
mindlessly follow whatever he says. He
wants to be the king of mushy garbage.
However, Jesus is inoculating people with
His life. They are going in the opposite
direction from the rest of the world. I
repeat - OPPOSITE! The path of God is
not the same as the rest of the world.
It is not parallel to the world, it is not similar in any way. The God of physics is the God of the spirit,
and He is not willing to leave us in our closed system. He will inject His life into us if we are
willing, if we submit, if we give Him our self.
Please note carefully and with prayer in your heart the following word
from our Lord through His last day messenger. "When the religion of Christ is most held in
contempt, when His law is most despised, then should our zeal be
the warmest and our courage and firmness the most unflinching. To stand in
defense of truth and righteousness when the majority forsake us, to fight the
battles of the Lord when champions are few--this will be our test. At this time we must (1)
gather warmth from the coldness of others, (2) courage from their cowardice, and (3) loyalty
from their treason."
{5T136} (emphasis & numbering
supplied)
Our entire focus
must be on our Father God Who gave us everything when He gave us His Beloved
Son Jesus Christ. As things get worse
let us press closer to Jesus. The
greater the trial the more we must ignore it and keep our eyes on the Captain
of our Salvation. It is our privilege to
live in the light of Heaven. Let Colossians 1:13 be repeated continually
when daily trials come. "He did
rescue us out of the authority of darkness, and did translate us into
the kingdom of His dear Son."
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