Samuel D. High
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From: Lynn Smith <lynn824@cebridge.net>
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Subject: Morning Manna June 28: BP: Ps. 40; RBTTY: Acts 9:1-21; Job
June 28
“Let all those that seek You rejoice and be glad in You. Let such as love Your salvation say continually, ‘The Lord be magnified’.”
When it’s all said and done, it doesn’t matter what people think about us for it’s all about Him.
Some folks walk in a room and get offended if others don’t notice their entrance. Although they may have a sense of humility about them, let them get offended or thwarted and their true colors come out.
They get red in the face. Their eyes bulge out, as do the veins in their neck. Their hearts race and their blood boils. And, if you didn’t know any better, you’d think you committed the unpardonable sin.
Oh, how subtle and pervasive the sins of carnality and pride!
A surefire antidote to this is found in today’s Manna where David enjoins us to “rejoice and be glad in the Lord and to continually say, ‘The Lord be magnified’.” Or, as was said earlier, a summary statement of this exhortation is “It’s all about Him, Pilgrim; it’s all about Him. Keep your eyes on Him and spend more time talking about Him than you do yourself.”
Think of it:
What would happen if the majority of our thoughts during the day were about the Heavenly Father and His love for us? What would happen if every word that sprang from our lips was about Jesus and His blessings in our lives? What would happen if every one of us were more concerned with His being revealed in us than we were our petty differences and pet peeves?
Why, we’d think we’d died and gone to Heaven! Glory!!
Yes, the “fruits of the Spirit” (Gal. 5:22-23) ripen on branches of “rejoicing and thanksgiving.” That’s why John the Baptist said about Jesus, “He must increase and I must decrease” (Jn. 3:30). That’s also why the Apostle Paul said, “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I liveyet, not I, but Christ Who lives 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” (Gal. 2:20).
Truly, it’s “all about Him,” isn’t it, Pilgrim?
Yes, it truly is.
That’s why we should daily say, “Dear Lord, help me today to guard my thoughts and bridle my tongue lest I bring shame and discredit to Your Holy Name. Help me to focus less on me and more on You and, in so doing, to help draw others to Jesus.”
As we do this, we must remember the Lord will use others’ unkind words and deeds as the “nails” to help us be “crucified with Christ” and as “thorns in the flesh” to teach us “His grace is sufficient” (II Cor. 12:9-10). May the Holy Spirit help us to be willing to “enter into the fellowship of His sufferings” today (Phil. 3:10).
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