FEB. 24, YOUR DAILY CLIMB (DEVOTIONAL)

Feb. 24, 2017

MY FRIENDS, CHOOSE TODAY WHY HESITATE?

Today we must understand, “the world will not be converted by the gift of tongues, or by the working of miracles, but [only] by preaching Christ crucified. [So] the Holy Spirit must be allowed to work. God has placed instrumentalities in our hands, and we must use every one of them to do His will. (E.G. White, Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers p 424) consistent with this, it must become personal as we allow God’s Spirit to restore God’s will into our character on this journey as we seek His presence daily.

“Because by beholding [His presence daily,] we become changed!” But, if we allow our minds to adapt to the things of this world and not those Christian attributes presented through God’s Word and Spirit our focus will become blurred, our character will deteriorate and the difference between right and wrong will never be challenged.

Remember, being only a good person is not a prerequisite for God’s kingdom, but to carry our cross as His disciple and love as He loved is. Oh what grace that will take us from this sinful world to that place “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for all that love him.” 1 Cor. 2:9 (KJV)

And, that place is where God’s faithful will live throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. My friends, it is time we quite giving Satan a pathway to our destiny, he is a defeated foe who knows, even He will one day bow down and acknowledges with His own tongue the greatness of “our Lord and Savior”

Yes, even the leader of this dark world and the evil forces in the heavenly realms who was the first to decide there was something better something greater “whose heart was lifted up because of [his] beauty, [who] corrupted [his] wisdom by reason of his brightness” who “said in his heart I will exalt my throne above the stars of God I will be like the Most High.” Ez. 28:17 (KJV), Is 14:13-14 (KJV)

Yes even he, who broke the perfect harmony of Heaven and earth, yes even he will acknowledge the greatness of God. Oh what love grace and mercy who knew the only way to vindicate who He was and that His law of love was only about love, who gave His only Begotten Son. And Oh, no greater love then that of a Son who was willing to vindicate His Father on Calvary and give all who believe the opportunity to live throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity.

My friends, at this moment in History, the world is choosing sides. Remember “Sin will not rise a second time” once God says it is finished and His faithful righteous have been sealed by the blood of the Lamb. So choose “this day whom you will serve.”

“Choose this day” if that “wide gate, that easy path that leads to destruction and death that many will enter is more appealing than that narrow gate, even though the path through it is hard, and the terrain rough, through Christ, His grace makes it easily obtainable and in the end it will lead to life-eternal. But what’s sad, very few will choose that path. But if only, you or I chose that path, Christ would have still died so that we would obtain life and obtain it more abundantly in His pure and holy kingdom.