Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mountaintop with God. If you do not obey the light, it will turn into darkness. “If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” ( Matthew 6:23 ). The moment you forsake the matter of sanctification or neglect anything else on which God has given you His light, your spiritual life begins to disintegrate within you.Continually bring the truth out into your real life, working it out into every area, or else even the light that you possess will itself prove to be a curse.

The most difficult person to deal with is the one who has the prideful self-satisfaction of a past experience, but is not working that experience out in his everyday life. If you say you are sanctified, show it. The experience must be so genuine that it shows in your life. Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent or self-gratifying; that belief came from the pit of hell itself, regardless of how beautiful it may sound.

Your theology must work itself out, exhibiting itself in your most common everyday relationships. Our Lord said, “. . . unless your righteousness exceeds the

righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven” ( Matthew 5:20 ).In other words, you must be more moral than the most moral person you know. You may know all about the doctrine of sanctification, but are you working it out in the everyday issues of your life? Every detail of your life, whether physical, moral, or spiritual, is to be judged and measured by the standard of the atonement by the Cross of Christ.

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August 27, 2010

Journal Entry for Today

Nowadays I wake up seeking God. I know that I need the one on oneness that can only come from an intimate connected relationship with Him. I wake up seeking Him because I know that without Him in every aspect of my life, I am not whole, I feel adrift seeking an anchor.

I used to wonder what it would feel like to be connected with God all the time. I now know what it feels like to be connected and intimate with God and when I am not, I am aware and seeking Him.

And God says, “As you experience more and more of Me in your life, you seek more of Me and less of you. You have begun to understand that a life in Me means a life led by My Spirit. You can no longer separate out daily activities and responsibilities by what is spiritual and what is not. You have come to understand that the life of a true believer is a life immersed in Me. You have experienced this and nothing else satisfies. Seek and you shall find; knock and the door will be opened.”