I wrote a heavy-duty, five-page document. My audience is a group so small I don’t need all my toes to count them. Not only that, the document’s focus is so sharp I don’t need all my cranial holes to count who’s in it.
This heavy document weighs on me…heavily. And this morning I ask myself a weighty question:
Will the recipients
be able to tell
I live in God’s presence?
According to Psalm 15, how can observers tell who lives in the presence of God?
- LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
- He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
- He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
- In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
- He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
How can such any person be that way!
Then there’s James 3:17…
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And so I ask again: How can such person be that way!
He lives in God’s presence! The character of God “rubs off” on those who walk with Him. Jesus lives His life through those who follow Him (Galatians 2:20):
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
This post, mostly written early this morning, conveys some of what I want for me. And for each disciple of Jesus, also known as Christians, you know.
