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Joy in Obedience, March 12
I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.
Psalm 119:174
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The true Christian will never complain that the yoke of Christ is galling
to the neck. He accounts the service of Jesus as the truest freedom. The
law of God is his delight. Instead of seeking to bring down the divine
commands, to accord with his deficiencies, he is constantly striving to rise
to the level of their perfection.
Such an experience must be ours if we would be prepared to stand in
the day of God. Now, while probation lingers, while mercy’s voice is still
heard, is the time for us to put away our sins....
God has made ample provision that we may stand perfect in His grace,
wanting in nothing, waiting for the appearing of our Lord. Are you ready?
Have you the wedding garment on? That garment will never cover deceit,
impurity, corruption, or hypocrisy. The eye of God is upon you.... We may
conceal our sins from the eyes of men, but we can hide nothing from our
Maker.
God spared not His own Son, but delivered Him to death for our offenses
and raised Him again for our justification. Through Christ we may present
our petitions at the throne of Grace. Through Him, unworthy as we are, we
may obtain all spiritual blessings. Do we come to Him, that we may have
life?
The will of God is expressed in the precepts of His holy law, and the
principles of this law are the principles of heaven. The angels of heaven
attain unto no higher knowledge than to know the will of God, and to do
His will is the highest service that can engage their powers.
But in heaven, service is not rendered in the spirit of legality. When
Satan rebelled against the law of Jehovah, the thought that there was a law
came to the angels almost as an awakening to something unthought of. In
their ministry the angels are not as servants, but as sons.... Obedience is
to them no drudgery. Love for God makes their service a joy. So in every
soul wherein Christ, the hope of glory, dwells, His words are re-echoed, “I
delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.”
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