March 23
“Jesus said … If a man love me, he will keep my words.” (John 14:23)
Many people take pride similarly in the work of God. They are ignorant of God’s Word, and think it is old-fashioned. Instead they take pride in their degrees and their philosophy, and to impress the crowds they use worldly means. They do not use God’s Word as they should. In preaching they use references to break up what they say, but men can never go against God’s Word. God uses different methods to break our pride in culture, in nationality and education.
It is only through humility and full obedience that we can build the house of God: only through acknowledging the headship and kingship of God. To show this, the Lord Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem on the colt of an ass, as a humble person and not in all His glory. We find this colt of an ass walking on garments and honour given to it.
How that colt was honoured! We have the same honour when we uphold the Lord Jesus in
the right way. We in ourselves have no honour as God’s servants, but when we obey the Lord fully, wherever we go we are showered with Love and kindness in so many ways. If, however, we start kicking like an ordinary colt we also will be beaten.
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Battle is the Lords | March 22
March 22
“The Lord saveth not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lords” (1 Sam. 17:47).
God has His own way of breaking all of us. David himself testified in 1 Samuel 17:47, and
declared very boldly that he was not depending upon the sword or any other weapon. Yet,
after winning many other battles in the strength of the Lord he wanted to take pride in
numbering his people, to show to others that in his kingdom there were many mighty men of valour to fight the enemy. He commanded Joab to number the people. Joab reminded him that he had not fought any battle in his own strength, nor by the strength of his army, but
that it was the Lord that had fought for him. Yet the King’s word prevailed and Joab numbered the people, till God’s wrath fell upon David, and he was brought to the threshing floor, (2 Sam. 24:15,16) to break his pride. A threshing floor is the place where men separate the grain from the chaff. David had begun to take pride in his knowledge, schemes and plans, but God was telling him: “David, what you called cleverness is nothing but chaff.” He had to be brought to the threshing floor to be humbled and emptied, and to break and take away his strength and self-sufficiency. God does the same to us to make us depend upon Him completely. That very threshing floor later became the site for Solomon’s temple (2 Chronicles 3:1).