"Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you — unless indeed you fail the test?" 2 Cor 13:5
Beloved, we must all take a serious look in the mirror. To be sure this can be a difficult and sobering thing to do when done in sincerity and openness of heart. Only we and God truly know what is in our hearts and minds. Truly we spend so much time managing others' impression of ourselves, we sometime forget who we really are. We buy in to the mask we construct for ourselves and experience self delusion.
This is a very dangerous thing for Christians. Look around and see how the moral standards of society have fallen so precipitously. Could it be that the same is true of us as a church and as individuals? Are we convicted by what we allow? Let it not be said of us what Christ said about the Pharisees: "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me," Matt 15:8.
Our precious relationship with the Lord is not in the telling. It is in the living. Let us constantly examine ourselves to see that the things we profess are the things that can truly be found in our lives, not by others, but by the Lord and ourselves. Our very eternity depends upon it.
In Revival,
Lee
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