These are two kinds of losses; personal loss and collective loss. The first loss is what we incur individually and the second is what is incurred by the whole assembly. Now the Word of God says that we as believers are members of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every member of the body is very necessary and precious. Some are tiny members, but in the body they play a very important function. When one member suffers the whole body suffers. When we live a life of loss and barrenness as believers, then the whole body, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, suffers. Our loss is a loss to the whole Church. Likewise our recovery will be joy and blessing to all.
Again we know that in the Lord Jesus Christ we have a great spiritual inheritance; it is a heavenly inheritance, and undefiled, which will never fade away. No man can fully comprehend it. Yet we continue to live a life of defeat and failure, because we do not know how to enjoy our heavenly inheritance. God had appeared and said to Abraham so clearly, ‘Leave your land, your property, and you kith and kin and go to a land which I will show you.’ He obeyed God. But one small mistake he brought heavy loss into his life. This was a loss through wrong partnership.
Because of Lot, God was not able to speak to Abraham clearly. God had been leading him from the very beginning, but at last he came to a stop. For, because of Lot, Abraham had lost the sense of God’s Presence. If there was to recovery it could be accomplished only through separation.
Today’s calendar’s Bible verse:
“Your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord.” Deut 11:7.
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