"His Voice Today"
September 24
🔸️ We are strangers to this Earth! 🔸️
We are strangers in this World. Even though a ship in the middle of the ocean is surrounded by seawater, that 'salt water' does not penetrate into the ship. Like this, if a believer begins to live differentiated life in this World, he will soon have to face ridicule and opposition in this World! In a very short span of time this World will become an uncomfortable place for him to live! The Lord Jesus warned His disciples in advance about the tribulations that caused by this World would be inevitable! (John 16:33).
For a Christian, if Heaven is the real belonging for him, we can naturally understand the fact that this World doesn't belong to him. He is like a fish put out of the water! So there is nothing to wonder in knowing that he has to endure the hardships and sufferings of life on this Earth! A miracle must be happened to keep a fish alive on the land! In the same way, the miracle that happened to 'that fish' is necessary for Christ's true congregation to survive on this Earth! Yes, God wants our Christian life to be like this. That is, a life that depends on the power of God's miraculous work every day!
God wants great "split" between His people and the spirit of this World permanently. The depth and breadth of that rift must be such that it separates heaven and hell... i.e the division is such that no one can come here from there or anyone can go there from here! (Luke 16:26).
You see! It is God's unquenchable desire to be completely free from the spirit of this World!
Prayer:
Our heavenly Father! Just as the "land" is alien to a fish, so also we wish to live as strangers to this World; help us to make You happy! In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Author:
Brother Zac Poonen
Translated version of the Tamil "Family Meditation Book".
From:-
https://t.me/hisvoicetoday
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