Weekly Pursuit – Week 3 of December
Verses:
Rom. 14:17 “For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
Excerpts:
We need to be joyful in the spirit. A Christian must be a joyful person. This does not mean that our circumstances will be wonderful. It may actually mean that we are in a “furnace,” like the three friends of Daniel. They were in the blazing furnace, but they were still joyful. Our surroundings and circumstances may be miserable, but we ourselves must be joyful. If between us and God there is no joy, we are wrong. If we are right with God, there will always be joy, even if we are suffering. When the apostles Paul and Silas were put into prison, their surroundings were terrible, but they were joyful. To their feeling they were not in the jail but in God. To them, the jail was simply the representative of God, and they were in Him. Therefore, they were joyful.
When we are burning in our spirit and joyful in the Holy Spirit, we enjoy God, reign as kings in life, walk in newness of life, and serve in newness of spirit. In our service we will not give people a feeling of oldness. Rather, we will always give others a feeling of freshness and newness. Our being new and fresh requires that we walk in the spirit and according to the spirit, set our mind on our spirit, be burning in spirit, and be joyful in the Holy Spirit. In this way we will boast in God and enjoy Him as our portion. ( CWWL, 1966, vol. 2, “The Divine Spirit with the Human Spirit in the Epistles,” pp. 273-274)
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