GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 22

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU……. PITY THOSE WHO FEAR (RESPECT/WORSHIP) YOU….PS 103:13-14

JESUS, YOU………..ARE MY ADVOCATE….ROM 8:34 AND HEB 7:25

JESUS, YOU…………GIVE POWER TO THE WEAK AND INCREASE STRENGTH…IS 40:29

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We are reading in the classic 1800’s book, Abide in Christ by Andrew Murray, and we’re in the chapter entitled, “Obeying His Commandments.”

THE WORD FOR TODAY

Psalm 119:128

“Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things I consider to be right;   I hate every false way.”

There is another thing that opens to the believer a deeper insight and secures a still more cordial acceptance of this truth (that keeping the commandments is the way to abide in Christ)  It is this, that in no other way did Christ Himself abide in the Father’s love.  In the life that Christ led upon earth, obedience was a solemn reality.  The dark and awful power that led man to revolt from his God came upon Him too, to tempt Him.  To Him as man, its offers of self-gratification were not matters of indifference, to refuse them, He had to fast and pray.  Being tempted, He suffered.  He spoke very distinctly of not seeking to do His own will, as a surrender He had continually to make.  He made the keeping of the Father’s commandments the distinct object of His life, and so abode in His love.  Does He not tell us, In John 8:28-29:

“……..I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.  And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”

He thus opened to us the only path to the blessedness of life on earth in the love of heaven, and when, as from our Vine, His Spirit flows in the branches, this keeping the commands is one of the surest and highest elements of the life He inspires.

Believer, if you would abide in Jesus, be very careful to keep His commandments.  Keep them in the love of your heart.  Do not be content to have them in the Bible for reference, but have them transferred by careful study, by meditation and by prayer, by a loving acceptance, by the Spirit’s teaching, to the “fleshly tables of the heart.” (2 Corinthians 3;3). 

Do not be content with the knowledge of some of the commands, those most commonly received among Christians, while others lie unknown and neglected.  Surely, with your New Covenant privileges, you would not be behind the Old Testament saints who spoke so fervently: “….I esteem all Thy precepts concerning all things to be right.” (Psalm 119:128).

Be assured that there is still much of your Lord’s will that you do not yet understand.  Make Paul’s prayer for the Colossians yours for yourself and all believers, “That you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.” (Colossians 1:9); and that of wrestling Epaphras, “that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God (Colossians 4:12).

Remember that this is one of the great elements of spiritual growth – a deeper insight into the will of God concerning you.

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