Deuteronomy 1:6
The LORD our God said to us
at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
Deuteronomy 1:8
See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession
of the land that the LORD swore he
would give to your fathers--to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--and to their
descendants after them."
LARGE
NUMBERS OF SUPPOSEDLY SOUND CHRISTIAN believers know nothing at all about
personal communion with God; and there lies one of the greatest weaknesses of
present-day Christianity!
The
experiential knowledge of God is eternal life (John 17:3), and increased
knowledge results in a correspondingly larger and fuller life. So rich a
treasure is this inward knowledge of God that every other treasure is as
nothing compared with it!
We may
count all things of no value and sacrifice them freely if we may thereby gain a
more perfect knowledge of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. This was Paul’s
testimony (Phil. 3:7-14) and it has been the testimony of all great Christi an
souls who have followed Christ from Paul’s day to ours.
To know
God it is necessary that we be like God to some degree, for things wholly
dissimilar cannot agree and beings wholly unlike can never have communion with
each other. It is necessary therefore that we use every means of grace to bring
our souls into harmony with the character of God.
As we
move farther up into the knowledge of Christ we open new areas of our beings to
attack, but what of it! Remember that spiritual complacency is more deadly than
anything the devil can bring against us in our upward struggle. If we sit still
to escape temptation, then we are being tempted worse than before and gaining
nothing by it.
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