WALKING THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS

The Psalmist David practiced a diligent devotional life that provides us one of life’s greatest lessons for restoring the church. He pursed personal holiness by regularly measuring his life against the ruler of God’s Word: I have hidden your Word in my heart that I might not sin against you (Psalm 119:10,11).

On left are worshipping Khasi Christians meeting at their Assembly Ground near Shillong, Meghalaya, NE India.

When you get as close to God as you can get, you are as far away from sin as you can get.  Remember the childhood story of the Ginger-bread Man? He met a hungry woman whom he easily outran. A very determined man could not catch him. A hungry boy, a bear, a pig, and a ravenous wolf all failed to catch him.

Consequently, the Gingerbread Man felt quite confident when he met old Sly Fox. I fact, he bragged, “I have already run away from a woman, a man, a boy, a bear, and a wolf. I can run away from you, too!

“Eh?” mumbled old Sly Fox. “I don’t hear well; come just a little closer so I can hear you.”

The confident little Gingerbread Man edged a step closer, trying to be kind to the sly old Fox, and he repeated his story. However, he had to move still closer to make himself heard: “I have already run away,” he said, “from a woman, a man, a boy, a bear, a pig and a wolf; and I can... “

With one snap of his still strong jaws, old Sly Fox clamped his jaws together on another tasty meal, and the Gingerbread Man was no more.

If you want to get as close as you can get to God, you will get as far from sin as you can possibly get (Picture shows a group of pastors
and leaders at FCG Conv. on Luzon in the Philippines).

Seek the Lord with your whole heart. Store His Word in your heart. It will tide the best of us through the worst of times; but know for certain, testing will come.

This, then, is our Lord’s idea of a holy religion. Or, as Mark Guy Pierce, once said: ”It is to make men like God, corresponding to Him, answering to Him. This is the aim and end of every part of it—to make men will as God wills; to make men do as God commands. To think as God thinks—that is, to

love God with all the mind. To will as God wills—that is to love God with all the heart. To do what God commands—that is, to love God with all the strength.”

At left is 1920 scene from Oklahoma Chog Camp Meeting … and this is walkingwithwarner.blogspot.com,
believing that through God's Word, our hills and valleys will be levelled into an Interstate called the Highway of Holiness. Once we walk therein, we will experience strength for each today and hope for every tomorrow. Be blessed, friend.
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