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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Overcoming the Saints, #14
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; (Romans 5:3)
What are some of the aspects of redemption that are created in us by various pressures and hardships?
Patience.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:3,4)
God's holiness.
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. (Hebrews 12:10)
Being worthy of the Kingdom.
Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: (II Thessalonians 1:5)
Obedience.
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; (Hebrews 5:8)
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. (Deuteronomy 8:2,3)
God brings us through the pressures and troubles of the wilderness until He has been assured we will obey Him. He humbles us. He causes us to go hungry and thirsty until we cry out in anguish. He takes away every security and hope until we learn to live by the Word coming continually from the mouth of the Lord Jesus.
God uses Satan to bring us down in weakness until we are humbly dependent on the Lord, until there is no wisdom or strength left in us. The Bride must experience the weakness and thirst of the cross.
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. (II Corinthians 12:7)
The purified remnant will come up out of the wilderness of trouble, leaning on the Lord Jesus.
Skill in war.
Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; (Judges 3:1,2)
Spiritual cleanliness.
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:14)
The purpose of war, flame, imprisonment, and the confiscation of our property is that the hidden things of our personality may be brought forth and judged. All that is in us that is not in God must be removed from us.
Our task is to wait patiently before the Lord no matter what happens to us. As the various elements in us are brought to the light, we are to hold them up to God so all that is not of God may be destroyed from our personality.
To be continued.