[Songs in the Night - November 6]
Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. I Peter 1:5
IN OUR journey through life almost daily we come
to places and circumstances which, wrongly received,
may change our entire course from fellowship and relationship
to God to sin and opposition to him.
What
Christian has not realized certain crises in his life in
which two voices seemed to speak to him; the one
favoring humility and obedience to God at any cost;
the other urging self-will backed by pride?
If we are
advanced Christians, who through numerous victories
have gained a position where such besetments are rare,
we still need to be on guard and to remember that we
have a very wily Adversary, that we have the treasure
of the new mind in an earthen vessel, and that in our
flesh dwelleth no perfection.
These recollections should
make us very humble, and lead us to cling closely to
the Lord, and to fear and abhor any attitude of conduct
and even of thought that would in any measure
seem to antagonize the divine will. Z'08-265 R4233:6 (Hymn 183)