Series 2.6.23 - #175

 

June 23, 2004

God is leading me in a plain path because of my enemies. I come and follow him. I simply follow him in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. I am not disturbed by the strange events that are happening. He has allowed all these things. He knows the way that I take. My steps are ordered. The path before my feet has been prearranged. He prepared a big fish to swallow up Jonah. It was working together for his good. The big thing that he has prepared for me is working together for my good also. It will vomit me up on the dry land of victory; therefore, I do not fear. I have been consumed with this problem, and now I am in the belly of it. I offer praise unto him from the depth of this thing, and it will become nauseated by my praises and vomit me up on the dry land of obedience. If I had obeyed when he first spoke to me about the direction to take concerning this situation, this big problem would not have been necessary. I followed human reasoning, conveniences, and the voice of man. These voices took me in the wrong direction. This big problem is removing me from a wrong direction and placing me in the will of God that he may bless me and souls may be won to his kingdom.

I purpose not to be filled with a lack of trust. Distrust is a big enemy. Distrust is void of conviction and certainty. Incertitude is at the heart of distrust. I cannot make the right choices by using distrust as a compass. There is no assurance or confidence in distrust. I am determined to go from the presence of men that I cannot trust. Liars all have the same father, and a leopard cannot change his spots. A liar gives ear to a naughty tongue. There is no reason to listen to it. A poor man is better than a liar. They will falsify anything to justify themselves. I have allowed experience to be my teacher. Now I sit at the feet of experience and eat the bitter herbs of learning with the sweet. These bitter things are good for me. I have learned to eat the sweet bread of obedience and to refuse the bitter, good-looking bread of disobedience.

God is true, and every man is a liar. The truth of God does not abound through lies unto his glory. I do not do evil that good may come. I record the bad things that have happened to me in the ledger of man, for there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understands. There is none that seeks after him. They are all gone out of the way, and they are together become unprofitable. There is none that does good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher and with their tongues, they have used deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Many have fallen from grace seeking to justify themselves through lies and self-righteousness. I pick myself up from the way of self-justification, for the entire world is guilty before God. No one is justified in his sight by the deeds of the law. The righteousness of God without the law is manifested. All have sinned and come short of his glory, but I am justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. He is declaring to me again, his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God. I believe in Jesus. God has justified me. I embrace grace, and I am saved from the hand of my enemies. He has not delivered me over to their will. Though false witnesses are raised up against me, even breathing out cruelty, I am believing to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. I wait on him and am of good courage. He will strengthen my heart; therefore, I wait on the Lord.

 

 

Hebrews 10:22 - 23

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

 

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

 

 

 

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