We've been having so much "fun" with the TAS devotional, I almost failed to post this other one I wanted to from yesterday! It's from Hannah W. Smith's daily devotional, "God is Enough." At one point someone made a statement about another day in her devotional, that it was all too much focused on the "inner-life." I thought this day's reading from the same devotional, was a good overview regarding how the inner-life must also be evidenced outwardly.
BTW: I don't always agree with things I read in the various devotionals . . . a number of times there's been whole days that I either don't agree with or maybe I don't understand. But then other times a devotional's daily reading may seem to lean toward one thing or another too much.
If a daily reading is taken by itself alone, one might get the impression that the author was all one way or the other extreme. (I've also had the experience of reading a devotional entry one year and not getting it at all, only to receive light the next year on the same reading!)
In the end of course, as was mentioned on this thread a couple days ago,
the final authority always has to be scripture itself.
Quote:
MAY 23 SEEING IS BELIEVING
The life hid with Christ in God is a hidden life as to its source, but
it must not be hidden as to its practical results. People must see that
we walk as Christ walked if we say that we are abiding in Him. We
must prove that we possess what we profess.
This means a great deal. It means that we must turn our backs
on everything that is contrary to the perfect will of God. It means that
we are to be a "peculiar people" (d. Titus 2:14) not only in the eyes
of God but in the eyes of the world around us. Wherever we go, it will
be known from our habits, tempers, conversation, and pursuits, that
we are followers of the Lord Jesus Christ We must no longer look on
our money as our own but as belonging to the Lord, to be used in His
service. We must not feel at liberty to use our energies exclusively in
the pursuit of worldly means, but must recognize that if we seek first
the kingdom of God and His righteousness, all needful things will be
added unto us (d. Matt. 6:33).
We will find ourselves forbidden to
seek 'the highest places or to strain after worldly advantages. We will
not be permitted to make self, as heretofore, the center of all our
thoughts and aims. Our days will have to be spent not in serving
ourselves but in serving the Lord. We will find ourselves called on to
bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. All our
daily duties will be more perfectly performed than ever, because
whatever we do will be done, "not with eyeservice, as menpleasers:
but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart"
(Eph. 6:6). (SEC, 202-3)
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