"Cause To Abide"

"Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence." (Psalms 140:13)

  Whether it is persecution from within, or it is from without, there is really only one thing that we need to stay focused upon: Where do I stand with the Lord? That is where relief comes from, when we know first and foremost, "It is Well with my Soul!" Seriously, there is really nothing more that you need to know, then that the Lord is on your side! After that, nothing else matters, nothing else can matter: Nothing else will matter! No matter who might turn against you, He never will, if your faith is in Him! This is something that I wish we could take with us, make a part of who we are, and never let it go; but it is really not all that easy to do. It doesn't matter how strong we might think that our walk is, because every day is another day we learn to walk again. How often we need to learn the same lessons, over again; it just will not end until we are safely in the presence of the Lord, face to face. In this life we will have tribulation; in other words, it is not going to be perfect! We are not perfect, and the harder we try to be perfect the more we discover that we are not! But I know someone who is; and because we are able to abide in Him, we are made perfect in Him! Isn't that what this is all about? The Good News to the world, is that in this fallen world, filled with imperfect people, those that call upon the name of Jesus are made perfect in Him. So who are the righteous and the upright? They are those that abide in Christ! Funny how it works that way, but Jacob's name has so many different way to express what it is we get to experience, just hanging onto Jesus. Not by our works, but by what He has done, we grab hold and don't let go; and if you find yourself having lost your grip, then call upon the name of Jesus, and He will pull you back unto Himself. That is why we give thanks, because it is never really our strength we need to depend upon, it is His...

"And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst and more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all the tears from there eyes." (Revelation 7:13-17)