An Individual Work

[Daily Devotional]

An Individual Work 

     As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in
him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have
been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Col. 2:6, 7.  

     If ever there was a time when those who claim to be Christians
should be all that the name comprehends, it is now. Are we following
Christ in very reality? . . . This is an individual work. We are to look
earnestly to our own standing and accountability. . . .  

     Are those who know the truth for this time anchored in Bible
doctrines? Are our weapons, "Thus saith the Lord," "It is written"? Is
our anchor cast within the vail? Are we individually rooted and grounded
in gospel truth so that we may be established, strengthened, and settled
in the faith? Are we, as those who have the knowledge of the mysteries
of God, those to whom God has committed the living oracles, loyal and
true to our stewardship? Those who are truly converted will reveal, as
missionaries for God, what the truth means to them in its transforming
efficiency and sanctifying power.  

     If we are weighted with the treasures of eternal truth we shall
proclaim to a world perishing in sin what it signifies to have the
sanctifying, redeeming love of Christ in the soul. If we are verily and
truly united in Christ, it is because truth has taken possession of the
soul temple. . . .  

     The heart that has opened its doors to Jesus will love pure,
cleansing, transforming truth, and will zealously contend for the faith
once delivered to the saints. Let no man stop short of entire,
unreserved surrender to God. Begin the work in the heart. Look away from
the course of action pursued by others to Christ. You have a soul to
save or a soul to lose, and this is too important a question to be
regarded indifferently.  

     One of the most earnest prayers in the Inspired Word is, "Create in
me a clean heart, O God" (Ps. 51:10); and from One who loved us and gave
His life for us comes the great and important assurance, "A new heart
also will I give you" (Eze. 36:26).  

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