The third name is David, illustrating the third divine principle --- the necessity for God’s order. To make him humble, God even permitted in David’s life many temptations. In God’s work we have to be extremely humble and broken. So whenever we are going through a testing time, remember, it is that God may make us humble vessels.
Perhaps we have the same temptation that David had (1Chron: 13.1-11). He thought that by making some change he would make a better impression. But in God’s work, we can never change God’s order. Whatsoever has been revealed in the Bible is to be followed, for every period of time, for every work and for every group. You can not change it. When you are tempted and make some change, there always comes loss.
We think that we are living in different days; but I can see from God’s word clearly that unless we fellow the heavenly pattern in our day, we cannot see God coming in His full glory. Sometimes we have to be brought on the ‘threshing floor’ because, in God’s work, we are depending far too much on human wisdom and cleverness; but we can not make any improvement on the heavenly plan.
Today’s calendar’s Bible verse:
“I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee”. Gen. 17:6.
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