But It Is Hardly Credible That One Could Be So Positively Ignorant

But It Is Hardly Credible That One Could Be So Positively Ignorant
Acts 26:15 “And I said, who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.”


The Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand.” There is no escape when Our Lord speaks, He always comes with an arrestment of the understanding. Has the voice of God come to you directly? If it has, you cannot mistake the intimate insistence with which it has spoken to you in the language you know best, not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
God has to destroy our determined confidence in our own convictions. “I know this is what I should do” – and suddenly the voice of God speaks in a way that overwhelms us by revealing the depths of our ignorance. We have shown our ignorance of Him in the very way we determined to serve Him. We serve Jesus in a spirit that is not His, we hurt Him by our advocacy for Him, we push His claims in the spirit of the devil. Our words sound all right, but our spirit is that of an enemy. “He rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of the spirit ye are of.” The spirit of our Lord in an advocate of His is described in 1 Corinthians 13.
Have I been persecuting Jesus by a zealous determination to serve Him in my own way? If I feel I have done my duty and yet have hurt Him in doing it, I may be sure it was not my duty, because it has not fostered the meek and quiet spirit, but the spirit of self-satisfaction. We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, “I delight to do they will, O My God.”


This was a wonderful devotion I had this morning and I am trying to apply it so much right now! Isn't it funny how when you get these wonderful revelations but then Satan attacks so hard and you have to always keep yourself in tact. Like right now I am dealing with people who are always disagreeing with me even on things that are totally small. Its like people decide to crash down on my own convictions as if they are not worth having at all. I have a hard time with people like that, I don't mind people voicing their opinions as long as they don't trash down mine. Yet I am keeping a cool head, and I am not pushing anything on anyone. I will let their hearts be pricked.
All I want right now is to not talk to anyone, I love them all but when things get uneasy then I want all God. He is the only one that will guide against persucution and selfish additudes. Blessed be His name, I love His guidance and I can't wait until tomorrow's message. Reading in Jonnie Moores blog today made me also realize that I must keep my focus even more. To not let people get to me, to not allow anger and hatred to rise in me. I will be in much prayer this week and I want to keep this focus more than anything.
"Dear Lord, guide me on the path of calmness, gentleness, and meekness. Dear Lord You are my God, and You are my One desire. Keep the evils of this world and the temptations in it as far away as You can. I want to keep you as my desire and focus.
Thank You dear Lord for Elizabeth, her sweet temperament and love for You and desire to keep herself pure amazes me. THank you Lord for allowing me to help work in her life and be there for her as good counsel and a person to hug her. Thank You Lord for what she has done in my life. Her honesty and loving kindness and her focus on Your truth helps me with my walk as well. Thank You dear Lord, pertect her heart."