Love for God Leads Us to Security in Him

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Love for God Leads Us to Security in Him

Today's Text: Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. Psalm 27:3

The Message:      You should be willing for all to know that you are not your own but His who bought you with an infinite price, and that you are not only bound but are determined to glorify Him in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. May the love of so great magnitude constrain you to confess Christ not only with the mouth but with the life, to bear fruit to the glory of God.      We are passing through an enemy's land. Foes are upon every side to hinder our advancement. They hate God and all who follow after Him and bear His name. But those who are our enemies are the Lord's enemies, and although they are strong and artful, yet the Captain of our salvation who leadeth us can vanquish them. As the sun disperses the clouds from its path, so will the Sun of Righteousness remove the obstacles to our progress. We may cheer our souls by looking at the things unseen that will cheer and animate us in our journey.      We may indeed say, "Thy presence is our security, our treasure, our glory, our joy.". . Do we pray that Christ will go where we go and dwell where we dwell? If we can live without Christ in this world, He will live without us in the better world. But if we cling to Him by living faith, saying with Jacob, "I will not let thee go"; if we entreat, "Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me," the promise is to us "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."      We cannot afford to live in neglect of the great salvation offered to us upon such liberal terms. The knowledge of the claims of God as our Father will keep us from offending Him. This will make us anxious to please Him. As His children we must walk in the light, walk worthy of God, who hath called us unto glory and His immortal kingdom.      We have read an account of a noble prince who carried the picture of his father always near his heart, and on important occasions, when there was danger of forgetting him, he would take out the likeness and view it, and say, "Let me do nothing unbecoming so excellent a father." God has claims upon us as Christians that we should never, never lose sight of for a moment....      God's people are called a crown, a diadem. Satan would eagerly seize the Lord's treasure, but God has secured it so that Satan cannot obtain it.... We are secure, perfectly secure, from the enemy's subtlety while we have unwavering trust in God.-Letter 8, 1873.

Commentary: My friend, in the battle against the forces of evil, we have One who can see us through every trial and every temptation.  One who knows what it is like to struggle against sin, One who has met the enemy in the frailty of sinful flesh and has gained the victory over him.  That person is none other than Jesus Christ the righteous.  He is our strength and comforter, a very present help in time of trouble. Each of us struggles with trial and temptation, but we have a Comforter and an Advocate that can sympathize with us for He knows the weaknesses of man and offers to us His strength that we may overcome sin.  While Jesus is in Heaven mediating for us with God, He is also here with us by His Spirit, His Holy Spirit that we may be comforted and strengthened. The work that He is doing above is also taking place in the hearts of all that love Him.  As we invite Him into our hearts, He comes in and by His abiding presence in us, cleanses the heart temple from the defilement of sin.  Day by day as He abides in us, we are transformed little by little into His image.  He says in John 15:4 " Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." The problem with many in the church today is that they are not abiding in Christ.  They have a form of godliness but they deny the power of God to give them victory over sin in their lives.  In 1 Corinthians 1:24 it says that Christ is the power of God, and the wisdom of God.  The problem that they have is that they have accepted another comforter in place of Jesus Christ.  A counterfeit comforter that cannot give them victory over sin for he is the father of sin.  The trinity teaches that the comforter is the Holy Spirit, but that that spirit is not the Spirit of Christ, but another spirit, separate from the Father and the Son.  In this way they have accepted another comforter and another mediator. My friend, it is only as we are connected to Jesus Christ our Comforter, that we are connected to the One True God and can be saved.  It is only as Jesus Himself is living within our lives that we can be cleansed from all unrighteousness and be saved. May you invite the true Comforter, which is Jesus the righteous, into your heart today, that by His presence and His love you may be purified and made white, ready to meet Him in the clouds of glory. God bless,

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