Post by Les Brewer on Dec 21, 2022 20:26:47 GMT
BEING DILIGENT IN TAKING STOCK OF LIFE
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
— Proverbs 27:23
The text above has a direct implications on leaders and those who God has put in charge of His flock, it is also very important that, you can give what you do not have, it is a leader who is diligent in knowing the state of his life and taking a proper stock of his life, that can in turn help others.
So the focus is me, on how diligent I am in knowing the state of my life and my relationship with God.
Every wise merchant will occasionally hold a stock-taking, when he will cast up his accounts, examine what he has on hand, and ascertain decisively whether his trade is prosperous or declining. Every man who is wise in the kingdom of heaven, will cry, “Search me, O God, and try me”; and he will frequently set apart special seasons for self-examination, to discover whether things are right between God and his soul, the year is running out with few days to go, it will be very important to use this break period to have a stock taking of your life and of the journey from January to this moment before the Lord.
The God whom we worship is a great heart-searcher; and of old His servants knew Him as “the Lord which searcheth the heart and trieth the reins of the children of men.” Arise! Be stir up in His name to make diligent search and solemn trial of your state, lest you come short of the promised rest. That which every wise man does, that which God Himself does with us all, I exhort you in the name of the Lord to do with yourself this moment, presenting yourself to the search light of the Lord.
Let the oldest saint, who has been in the Lord look well to the fundamentals of his piety, for grey heads may cover black hearts: and let not the young professor despise the word of warning, for the greenness of youth may be joined to the rottenness of hypocrisy, having physical strength as a youth to run around in activities does not equal being a man of His presence.
Every now and then there are situations and temptations to falls in our midst. The enemy still continues to sow tares among the wheat. This is not to introduce doubts and fears into our minds; nay, but verily, it is with hope rather that being diligent in self-examination and bringing ourselves under the search light of the Lord may help to drive doubts and fears away.
Hypocrisy and the inability to present ourselves to be dealt with by the Lord has made many things unreal, there is no genuine security that men of old have, but carnal security, which we have to be dealt with; not confidence, but fleshly confidence, which we would overthrow; not peace, but false peace, which we would destroy. By the precious blood of Christ, which was not shed to make you a hypocrite, but that sincere souls might show forth His praise, I beseech we should search and look, lest at the last it be said “Mene, Mene, Tekel: thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”
May God Almighty help us not to be found wanting at the end but that "...the very God of peace sanctify us wholly; and I pray God that our whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is he that calleth us, who also will do it in Jesus Name!
Have a wonderful day and a blessed day!
God bless us all.
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
— Proverbs 27:23
The text above has a direct implications on leaders and those who God has put in charge of His flock, it is also very important that, you can give what you do not have, it is a leader who is diligent in knowing the state of his life and taking a proper stock of his life, that can in turn help others.
So the focus is me, on how diligent I am in knowing the state of my life and my relationship with God.
Every wise merchant will occasionally hold a stock-taking, when he will cast up his accounts, examine what he has on hand, and ascertain decisively whether his trade is prosperous or declining. Every man who is wise in the kingdom of heaven, will cry, “Search me, O God, and try me”; and he will frequently set apart special seasons for self-examination, to discover whether things are right between God and his soul, the year is running out with few days to go, it will be very important to use this break period to have a stock taking of your life and of the journey from January to this moment before the Lord.
The God whom we worship is a great heart-searcher; and of old His servants knew Him as “the Lord which searcheth the heart and trieth the reins of the children of men.” Arise! Be stir up in His name to make diligent search and solemn trial of your state, lest you come short of the promised rest. That which every wise man does, that which God Himself does with us all, I exhort you in the name of the Lord to do with yourself this moment, presenting yourself to the search light of the Lord.
Let the oldest saint, who has been in the Lord look well to the fundamentals of his piety, for grey heads may cover black hearts: and let not the young professor despise the word of warning, for the greenness of youth may be joined to the rottenness of hypocrisy, having physical strength as a youth to run around in activities does not equal being a man of His presence.
Every now and then there are situations and temptations to falls in our midst. The enemy still continues to sow tares among the wheat. This is not to introduce doubts and fears into our minds; nay, but verily, it is with hope rather that being diligent in self-examination and bringing ourselves under the search light of the Lord may help to drive doubts and fears away.
Hypocrisy and the inability to present ourselves to be dealt with by the Lord has made many things unreal, there is no genuine security that men of old have, but carnal security, which we have to be dealt with; not confidence, but fleshly confidence, which we would overthrow; not peace, but false peace, which we would destroy. By the precious blood of Christ, which was not shed to make you a hypocrite, but that sincere souls might show forth His praise, I beseech we should search and look, lest at the last it be said “Mene, Mene, Tekel: thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”
May God Almighty help us not to be found wanting at the end but that "...the very God of peace sanctify us wholly; and I pray God that our whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is he that calleth us, who also will do it in Jesus Name!
Have a wonderful day and a blessed day!
God bless us all.
