A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY
🕯️🕯️🕯️October 1 🕯️🕯️🕯️
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock ” (Psalm 40:2)
The church or Ecclesia means drawn out. Suppose a magnet is brought near a huge file containing various articles of gold, silver, iron, brass, and precious gems like diamonds and rubies. Only a dirty and rusty nail is drawn out by the magnet, and the lovely, expensive articles are left behind. In the same way, Christ attracts the poor, lost and unclean sinners who have repented; but proud and wealthy people of the world are not drawn to Him. The word Ecclesia means “drawn out” . It refers to those who have been drawn out of the world by Christ. Even though they may be illiterate and have no qualifications such as are esteemed highly in the world, yet in God’s sight they have become most precious. Of such people our Lord says , “I have chosen you out of the world”(John 15:19).
Do you belong to this Church? Can you truthfully say the Lord Jesus has drawn you out from the world? Do not think because you have a Christian name or you have much Bible knowledge you belong to the Lord. There must be a change in your heart and your life. When you are drawn out by God’s mighty hand, worldly pleasures lose their power of attraction for you. You have no need to struggle and strive, but because Christ has come into your heart, darkness has disappeared and you are delivered from the power of sin. Unless this has happened to you, you cannot say that you belong to the Church. Many Christians, so- called, long for worldly things. They feel that there is no harm if they indulge in worldly pleasures occasionally. They would like to go to the cinema and see “good pictures” only two or three times a year. They do not realise that poison could be deadly whether you have a drop of it or a bottle full. The small T.B. germs can kill your whole body. One spot in the eye can cause blindness. Make sure that the Lord has delivered you totally from every worldly pleasure and made you a member in His true Church.
