“Choose you this day whom ye will serve.”
Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God's Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth it is never a question of what He will do, but of what we will do. The Lord has been putting before us all some big propositions, and the best thing to do is to remember what you did when you were touched by God before - the time when you were saved, or first saw Jesus, or realized some truth. It was easy then to yield allegiance to God; recall those moments now as the Spirit of God brings before you some new proposition.
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve." It is a deliberate calculation, not something into which you drift easily; and everything else is in abeyance until you decide. The proposition is between you and God; do not confer with flesh and blood about it. With every new proposition other people get more and more "out of it," that is where the strain comes. God allows the opinion of His saints to matter to you, and yet you are brought more and more out of the certainty that others understand the step you are taking. You have no business to find out where God is leading, the only thing God will explain to you is Himself.
Profess to Him - 'I will be loyal.' Immediately you choose to be loyal to Jesus Christ, you are a witness against yourself. Don't consult other Christians, but profess before Him - I will serve Thee. Will to be loyal - and give other people credit for being loyal too.
4 comments:
OK, i know it is a tough read sometimes, but the message is so deep. We should and have to choose every morining when we get up whom we shall serve!!!! The choice is ours. Actually it is ours every moment of every day. My father -in-law often reminds me that I should be seeking my rewards from the vertical not the horizontal or the things of the is world. What really matters to us? If a fly on the wall had to recount my day and say, "what was most important in my life what would it be???"
Father I choose You today.
cas
ps-abeyance means temporarily set aside or inactive
Dear God, I'll be loyal to you today!!
Wow. This really hits home with me. It is so easy to say and so hard to do. A very good reminder to choose Him today.
It's the bottom line. Its not what we say to anyone else, not what we post, its all about what we really mean between us and God.
God you know my heart. Help me to act upon it.
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