“When you are in any place or about any work to
which you are not called, you may be sure God is not in that place or
enterprise.
If you love to
walk in God's company, you must abide in your place and calling. Every step in
a different direction is a departure from Him. How much more blessed to stay at
home in a humble place and low calling and there enjoy God's sweet presence,
than to go to a sumptuous palace and live without Him. Truly, when you are in
any place or about any work which you are not called, you may be sure God is
not in that place or enterprise. And what a bold adventure it is to stay where
you cannot expect His presence to assist or protect!
In doing the duty
of our place we have heaven's word for our security; but if we wander, we have
heaven's word for our peril. It is just as dangerous to do what we are not
called to do as to neglect or leave undone the duty of our place. As the earth
could not bear the act of Korah and his company in usurping another's authority
Numbers 16:30-33, so the sea could not harbor Jonah, the runaway prophet.
Refusing to be his escape route from God's command, the raging sea caused Jonah
to be cast overboard Jonah 1:14-15. Nor would heaven harbor the angels once
they had left their God-appointed place and office Jude 6.
The ruin of many
souls rushes in upon them at this door. First they break rank, then they are
led further into temptation. Absalom first looked over the hedge in his
ambitious thoughts: He would be king! This wandering desire to go beyond his
place let in the bloody sins of rebellion, incest, and murder, and these at
last delivered him into the hands of divine vengeance. The apostle joins order
to steadfastness: "I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your
order, and the steadfastness of your faith" Colossians 2:5. That army
alone is invincible in which every soldier stands in close order, attending to
his duty and content with his work."
Quoted material from, ”The Christian in Complete
Armour Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare” by Gurnall and James S Bell.
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