Daily Devotionals

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What is controlling you?

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Jan 17

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

—John 8:32

Ours is an age of philosophical uncertainty, and we no longer know what we believe. We stand uncommitted. Everywhere I go, I ask students, “What is controlling you?” When I was a student, I had to face Christ. Who was He? He had made the astounding claim, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” I wrestled with the inescapable fact that either Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, or He was the biggest liar, fraud, and charlatan in history. Which was it? Buddha said toward the end of his life, “I am still searching for the truth.” But here was Jesus who appeared and said, “I am the embodiment of all truth. All truth is centered in me.”

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what is heavenly pattern

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January 17
“Take heed now; for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong,
and do it. Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses
thereof ……. All this, said David, the Lord made me understand in writing by his hand upon
me, even all the works, of this pattern” (1 Chro.28: 10,19).
The very spot where David was punished became the site of God’s House. (2 Chron. 3:1).
From that day David’s true joy began. He had happy days, wonderful days, but nothing
compared to the joy he found there at the altar, on the site for the temple of God.
God was now able to give to David the pattern for His temple, and the assurance that his son
had been chosen of God to build it. The joy that David now experienced was an entirely
different kind of joy. It was the joy that comes with the revelation of the heavenly plan for
the house of God. The king rejoiced and the people rejoiced also. Yet David could not have
rejoiced as he did now without going through all those other experiences. Every stage was
necessary.
The joy of the Lord is your strength, but the joy of the revelation of the heavenly pattern, and
of knowing that God has called us to share in it, supersedes all other joys that you may have
experienced on other occasions. In this joy you enter into the plan and purpose of God
regarding His people, both now and in ages to come. Pray then that the Lord will lead you on
from joy to joy, till you come to the fullness of the joy of the Lord which is your strength.

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