Before the Answer can Fully Come there may be things that have to be Put Right – in those around us, in humankind as a whole, or in God’s government – but the Faith that Has According to the Word Believe that it Has Received can allow God to take His Time.
Clearer, Fuller, Riper Faith that Claims the Promise as a Present Experience.
Persevering, not unbelieving, but Confident and Praiseful Prayer.
Full Union with the Lord! Enter Upon the Possession of the Blessing in Him!
Little Foxes! so destructive!
Every small appearance of the old life – a habit, a bit of selfishness, uncrucified pride, a tendency to dwell on past grievances – all these and much more are the little foxes.
These are not the grave sins, the shameful reversion to the world, but the unobtrusive and often unnoticed contradictions of our calling in Christ.
How they spoil what might otherwise be such a delight to God.
Little folly. Unpleasant odor.
Christ Says – you need My Help. We will do it together! rid all the little foxes!
God Creates man that the latter may be United With Him in Defeating Satan and his works.
Being Created with a free will, man is Expected to Exercise his will for Union With God’s Will in Opposing the will of Satan.
This is the Purpose of Creation as well as the Purpose of Redemption.
The Entire Life of the Lord Jesus Demonstrates This Principle.
Though we do not know the reason why, we nevertheless Know that God will not act independently.
for this reason I am well pleased in weaknesses, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses—for Christ; for whenever I may be weak, then I am powerful;
When I Speak of Christ as My Life, it must not be a vague, indefinite thing, but I Must Know.
Look To Christ! Christ Before Us as Our Example!
HEBREWS 6.12
that you may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.
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PHILIPPIANS 3.7-11
But what things were gains to me, these I have counted loss, because of the Christ; yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered loss of all things, and count them to be refuse, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not having my righteousness, which [is] of law, but that which [is] through faith from Christ—the righteousness that is of God by faith, to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if anyhow I may attain to the resurrection of the dead.
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SONG 2.15
Seize for us foxes, || Little foxes—destroyers of vineyards, || Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.
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GENESIS 1.26-28
And God says, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.” And God creates the man in His image; in the image of God He created him, a male and a female He created them. God blesses them, and God says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping on the earth.”
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2 CORINTHIANS 12.10
for this reason I am well pleased in weaknesses, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses—for Christ; for whenever I may be weak, then I am powerful;
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COLOSSIANS 3.4
when the Christ—our life—may have appeared, then we will also appear with Him in glory.
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ROMANS 8.15-17
for you did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but you received [the] Spirit of adoption in which we cry, “Abba! Father!” [This] One—the Spirit—testifies with our spirit, that we are children of God; and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ—if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
