March 11, 2016
MY FRIENDS, ARE WE WONDERING AIMLESSLY WITH NO DESTINATION IN SIGHT?
“Those who would not fall a prey to Satan’s devices, must guard well the avenues of the soul; they must avoid reading, seeing, or hearing that which will suggest impure thoughts. The mind must not be left to dwell at random upon every subject that the enemy of souls may suggest. The heart must be faithfully sentineled, or evils without will awaken evils within, and the soul will wander in darkness.
“Gird up the loins of your mind,” Peter wrote, “be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (E.G. White, Acts Of The Apostles pp 518-519) My friends that quote tells us, we must avoid the “very appearance of evil” because “evils without will awaken evils within.”
Remember, Satan from the beginning of our conception has studied our character, he knows what areas we will fall in. He also knows what is generational within our DNA and what character flaws is hereditary that has been handed down from generation to generation that is within us. My friends we must never forget Satan is a strategist who will “blind the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” 2 Cor. 4:4 (KJV)
So we must “be sober-minded; and watchful. For our adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” 1 Peter 5:8 
(ESV) And my friends, that someone is you and I. In addition, our over saturation of what we see and hear in the media has turned our world into a nation of the walking dead. Not realizing that we are being manipulated by government and corporate advertisers.
And it is through what we watch and hear and the places we go where Satan causes us to stumble while at the same time we lose sight of Christ saving grace, forgetting that life is too short to squander it away on things that have nothing to do with our soul salvation. So to constantly program our minds on the things of this world will only shift our brain activity from Christ centered, to a state of “susceptibility, suggestibility and an unfocused state of mind.”
And it is at that point we have no desire of knowing, perceiving, or remembering the things God deems beneficial, and precious for our salvation. Remember, Moses had seen an entire generation wander aimlessly in the desert for forty years because they refused to believe God’s word. Instead, choose to believe the ten spies who said the land God had promised them was too difficult to conquer.
Therefore forty years, the Israelites roamed the wilderness, with no specific destination in sight. An entire generation was sentenced to an inactive and slothful wandering in the wilderness before they all died with only Moses, Joshua and Caleb remaining to represent the generation that left Egypt. Many of us experience this same dilemma, wandering in the wilderness of sin with no destination in sight as the year’s fly by.
My friends, time is precious, and how we use it for God’s glory and honor, is of vital importance to our spending eternity with Christ. Each precious moment we have left on this earth should be spent in searching to capture the mind and character of Christ through His word and Spirit because the things of this world will soon pass away and so will the unbelievers who did not give their all to Christ, but, “set their mind on earthly things, and not on things above.” Col. 3:2 (NIV)
Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.
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