July 8th — THE WILL TO LOYALTY
July 8th.THE WILL TO LOYALTY
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve." Joshua 24:15
Wil is the whole man active. I cannot give up my wil , I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God's Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth it is never a question of what He wil do, but of what we wil do. The Lord has been putting before us al some big propositions, and the best thing to do is to remember what you did when you were touched by God before - the time when you were saved, or first saw Jesus, or realized some truth. It was easy then to yield al egiance to God; recal those moments now as the Spirit of God brings before you some new proposition.
"Choose you this day whom ye wil serve." It is a deliberate calculation, not something into which you drift easily; and everything else is in abeyance until you decide. The proposition is between you and God; do not confer with flesh and blood about it. With every new proposition other people get more and more "out of it," that is where the strain comes. God al ows the opinion of His saints to matter to you, and yet you are brought more and more out of the certainty that others understand the step you are taking. You have no business to find out where God is leading, the only thing God wil explain to you is Himself.
Profess to Him - 'I wil be loyal.' Immediately you choose to be loyal to Jesus Christ, you are a witness against yourself. Don't consult other Christians, but profess before Him - I wil serve Thee. Will to be loyal - and give other people credit for being loyal too.