FIRE BY NIGHT
"Reflections Upon Reflections" [of The Father's Heart]
DECEMBER 2nd
THERE IS ONLY "ONE" POSITION WHEREIN WE CAN BOTH CORRECTLY AND READILY IDENTIFY THE "SCHEMES OF THE EVIL ONE
...."Who
is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good? But even if you
should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED,
but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a
defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in
you, yet with gentleness and reverence; and keep a good conscience so that in
the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in
Christ will be put to shame".... 1 Peter 3:13-16 NASB
...."so that no advantage
would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes"....
2 Corinthians 2:11 NASB
...."But God, being rich
in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were
dead in our transgressions, made us alive together
with Christ [by grace you have been saved], and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the
heavenly places in Christ Jesus".... Ephesians 2:4-6
NASB
When Peter wrote, "but
sanctify [set apart] Christ as Lord in
your hearts" he was simply expressing the Father's deepest heart desire
for His people to set His Word and Spirit above "all" else - at
"all" times. It is our task to give His Word preeminence. It is His
task to do the sanctifying - that is, "keep" us by "His"
power in that holy place far above and apart from anything that would cause us
to fall short of all that He has provided for us in Christ [the Anointed One and His Anointing]. When the
Father asked us to sanctify Him in our heart He was calling us to draw near to
Him in the "secret place of His Presence" - for it is only as one
"abides" in this position that He can "reveal" Himself to
them in the way that He "longs" to with each and every one of His
beloved children. I know that, at times, as we move deeper and deeper into the
fullness of our particular calling and the exercising of our "gifts,"
Satan attempts to "jam" our signals. This is precisely why each one
of us "must" continually draw near to God - thus sanctifying Him in
our hearts - for there is only "one" position wherein we can both
correctly and readily identify the "schemes" of the Evil One, and
that is "seated" with the Father in the heavenly places in [with] the Anointed One and His Anointing!