Deeper Life #76

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

—1 Peter 1:5

CRISES REVEAL CHARACTER! THIS IS true in the natural and the spiritual worlds. When Jesus Christ was in the wilderness, being tempted of the Devil for forty days and nights with nothing to eat, what do you think kept Him? Divine character, secured by the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.

What about your home life in recent weeks and months? How did you behave when things went wrong? Did you have to suppress your real feelings? Be honest.

Unless you meet God at the altar, He will never alter you. The Devil will try to pawn all kinds of emotional defeats on you. After you are sanctified wholly, he will try to convince you that you are not sanctified. Then is the time for you to get out your handcuffs for the Devil and say, “I am crucified with Christ.”

Character, not emotions, will keep and hold you by the power of God when the onslaughts of the Devil are leveled at you.

Prayer Thought: Lord Jesus, Your security, in the midst of my swirling emotions, is the rock on which I stand.

SUGGESTED READING: 1 Peter 1:3–9