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Where God Leads, November 19
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence
and godly fear.
Hebrews 12:28
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A life of monotony is not the most conducive to spiritual growth.
Some can reach the highest standard of spirituality only through a change
in the regular order of things. When in His providence God sees that
changes are essential for the success of the character building, He disturbs
the smooth current of the life....
God sees that a worker needs to be more closely associated with Him;
and to bring this about, He separates him from friends and acquaintances.
When He was preparing Elijah for translation He moved him from place
to place that he might not settle down at ease and thus fail of obtaining
spiritual power. And it was God’s design that Elijah’s influence should be
a power to help many....
Let those who are not permitted to rest in quietude, who must be
continually on the move, pitching their tent tonight in one place and
tomorrow night in another place, remember that the Lord is leading them
and that this is His way of helping them to form perfect characters. In all
the changes that we are required to make, God is to be recognized as our
companion, our guide, our dependence....
Many are ignorant of how to work for God, not because they need
to be ignorant, but because they are unwilling to submit to His training.
Moab is spoken of as a failure because, the prophet declares, “Moab hath
been at ease from his youth, ... and hath not been emptied from vessel to
vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in
him, and his scent is not changed” (
Jeremiah 48:11
). Thus it is with those
whose hereditary and cultivated tendencies to wrong are not purged from
them....
The Christian is to be prepared for the doing of a work that reveals
kindness, forbearance, long-suffering, gentleness, patience. The cultiva-
tion of these precious gifts is to come into the life of the Christian, that,
when called into service by the Master, he may be ready to use his highest
powers in helping and blessing those around him.
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