GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 7

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU…….. ABOLISHED DEATH  (& WITH IT, THE FEAR OF DEATH) 2Timothy 1:10

JESUS, YOU……….DO NOT CHANGE –Mal. 3:6

JESUS, YOUR………. MERCY AND FAITHFULNESS EXTEND TO THE SKIES—Ps 36:5

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

Hebrews 12:10

“For they (earthly fathers)  indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.”

In Andrew Murray’s book, Abiding in Christ, we are reading the chapter entitled, “In Affliction and Trial”

Abide in Christ; so will you become partaker of all the rich blessings God designed for you in the affliction.   The purposes of God’s wisdom will become clear to you, your assurance of the unchangeable love become stronger, and the power of His spirit will fulfill in you the promise: 

“He chastens us for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.” (Hebrews 12:10)

Abide in Christ, and your cross becomes the means of fellowship with His cross and access into its mysteries – the mystery of the curse that He bore for you, of the death to sin in which you partake with Him, of the love in which, as sympathizing High Priest, He descended into all your sorrows.

 Abide in Christ, as you are growing in conformity to your blessed Lord in His sufferings, deeper experience of the reality and the tenderness of His love will be yours. 

Abide in Christ; in the fiery oven, one like the Son of Man will be seen as never before; the purging away of the cross and refining of the gold will be accomplished, and Christ’s own likeness will be reflected in you.  Oh, abide in Christ; the power of the flesh will be mortified; the impatience and self-will of the old nature will be humble to make place for the meekness and gentleness of Christ.  A believer may pass through much affliction and yet secure but little blessing from it all.  Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

Abide in Christ: in Him you will find sure and abundant consolation.  With the afflicted, comfort is often first, and the profit of the affliction second,  the Father loves us so, that with Him our real and abiding profit is His first object, but He does not forget to comfort too.  When He comforts, it is so that He may turn the bleeding heart to Himself to receive the blessing in fellowship with Him; when He refuses comfort, His object is still the same.

It is in making us partakers of His holiness that true comfort comes.  The Holy Spirit is the Comforter, not only because He can suggest comforting thoughts of God’s love, but far more, because He makes us Holy and brings us into close union with Christ and with God.  He teaches us to abide in Christ; and because God is found there, the truest comfort will come there too. 

In Christ, the heart of the Father is revealed, and higher comfort there cannot be than to rest in the Father’s bosom.  In Him, the fullness of the divine love is revealed, combined with the tenderness of a mother’s compassion – and what can comfort like this?  In Him you see a thousand times more given you than you have lost.   See how God only took from you that you might have room to take from Him what is so much better. 

In Him, suffering is consecrated and becomes the foretaste of eternal glory; in suffering it is that the Spirit of God and of glory rests on us.  Believer, would you have comfort in affliction?  Abide in Christ.

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