Vision By Personal Character

March 27 Daily Devotional

Vision By Personal Character Come up hither, and I will shew thee things.  Revelation 4:1 An elevated mood can only come out of an elevated habit of personal character. If in the externals of your life you live up to the highest you know, God will continually say — “Friend, go up higher.” The golden rule in temptation is — “Go higher.” When you get higher up, you face other temptations and characteristics. Satan uses the strategy of elevation in temptation, and God does the same, but the effect is different. When the devil puts you into an elevated place, he makes you screw your idea of holiness beyond what flesh and blood could ever bear. It is a spiritual acrobatic performance, you are just poised and dare not move; but when God elevates you by His grace into the heavenly places, instead of finding a pinnacle to cling to, you find a great table-land where it is easy to move. Compare this week in your spiritual history with the same week last year and see how God has called you up higher. We have all been brought to see from a higher standpoint. Never let God give you one point of truth which you do not instantly live up to. Always work it out, keep in the light of it. Growth in grace is measured not by the fact that you have not gone back, but that you have an insight into where you are spiritually; you have heard God say “Come up higher,” not to you personally, but to the insight of your character. “Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?” God has to hide from us what He does until by personal character we get to the place where He can reveal it. From My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition Bible in One Year: Judges 1-3; Luke 4:1-30

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern. from The Love of God—The Message of Invincible Consolation, 673 L

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