[Songs in the Night - April 29]
Follow peace with all men. Hebrews 12:14
AS NEW creatures we should be very vigilant,
should continue to grow, should increase in power to
overcome the flesh.
Then we shall be safe.
Self is to
be our special battleground.
Many of the Lord's people
have a great deal of natural combativeness.
This
is a good trait if controlled and turned in the right
direction.
Combativeness is necessary, or we could
never overcome.
But we need to restrain ourselves
that we do not fight the brethren; and we are not to
enter into a personal combat with the devil.
We are
no match for him.
But we are to resist him.
The
Lord will soon take hold of him and bind him up for
a thousand years.
He will conquer the Adversary and
will undo all his works.
But it will require the entire
thousand years to accomplish fully that work.
We
need not hope to overthrow Satan or his works while
we are in the flesh.
It is not our mission.
What the
Lord has given us to do is to conquer ourselves, to
control this body which is of the fallen race of Adam,
to keep ourselves that that wicked one touch us not. Z'16-212 R5923:5 (Hymn 242)