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The Master never valued public acclaim. He understood that the test did not lie there. The test of his loyalty to God was when he was alone and helpless. Loyalty to living spiritual truth, loyalty to love must transcend everything else. This loyalty must shape all the loyalties below it rather than the other way around. Human beings sometimes confuse loyalty to church, friends, and community with loyalty to God. Loyalty to God may someday require leaving behind friends, family, and community. This is where your courage will be tested.
The Master never valued public acclaim. He understood that the test did not lie there. The test of his loyalty to God was when he was alone and helpless. Loyalty to living spiritual truth, loyalty to love must transcend everything else. This loyalty must shape all the loyalties below it rather than the other way around. Human beings sometimes confuse loyalty to church, friends, and community with loyalty to God. Loyalty to God may someday require leaving behind friends, family, and community. This is where your courage will be tested.
It is tempting for human beings to give lip service to God while pursuing their own desires and then when these desires are fulfilled, to credit this to God’s design. God desires one thing, your love, your loyalty, and your spiritual movement toward him. Nothing else has value. The circumstances of life will undergo many changes as you grow in the spirit, but the thing you must put first, and it requires tremendous courage to do so, is three things – love of God, loyalty to him, and movement toward him. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2003-05-23-Courage Ham]
It is tempting for human beings to give lip service to God while pursuing their own desires and then when these desires are fulfilled, to credit this to God’s design. God desires one thing, your love, your loyalty, and your spiritual movement toward him. Nothing else has value. The circumstances of life will undergo many changes as you grow in the spirit, but the thing you must put first, and it requires tremendous courage to do so, is – love of God, loyalty to him, and movement toward him. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2003-05-23-Courage Ham]
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