I've never been a soldier, the closest I've come to a soldier in action is watching them in the movies or tv shows. Soldiers on active duty during wartime obviously have to prepare for their day differently than others. I can't imagine an active duty soldier not having any protective gear on, can you? A soldier who is going into war on the front lines wouldn't dream of going there without their bullet proof vests, their helmets, boots and so on and so forth. Why do Christian soldiers insist on going about their lives without armor? Sure, military soldiers can take leaves from war and go home, but Christian soldiers are on duty for life. Our armor is needed daily. And we need a DAILY consecration, a DAILY conversion to God, because we live in a very dangerous world- every day we have to commit our lives to God. Every day. God gives us our armor as we consecrate ourselves to Him. We can't produce the armor ourselves, not a single boot can we give to ourselves. We must daily, DAILY, submit ourselves to our LORD.
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'There is truth to be received if souls are saved. The keeping of the commandments of God is life eternal to the receiver. But the Scriptures make it plain that those who once knew the way of life and rejoiced in the truth are in danger of falling through apostasy, and being lost. Therefore there is need of a decided, daily conversion to God.' (Faith I Live By EGW)
'Self-sufficiency blinds their eyes to their great need. There is a positive necessity for a daily conversion to God, a new, deep, and daily experience in the religious life.' (Counsels On Health EGW)
'Let Us Ask of God.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. James 1:5.
It is the privilege of every believer first to talk with God in his closet, and then as God's mouthpiece to talk with others. In order that we may have something to impart, we must daily receive light and blessing. Men and women who commune with God, who have an abiding Christ, who, because they cooperate with holy angels, are surrounded with holy influences, are needed at this time. The cause needs those who have power to draw with Christ, power to express the love of God in words of encouragement and sympathy.
As the believer bows in supplication before God, and in humility and contrition offers his petition from unfeigned lips, he loses all thought of self. His mind is filled with the thought of what he must have in order to build up a Christlike character. He prays, “Lord, if I am to be a channel through which Thy love is to flow day by day and hour by hour, I claim by faith the grace and power that Thou hast promised.” He fastens his hold firmly on the promise, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, ... and it shall be given him.”
How this dependence pleases the Master! How He delights to hear the steady, earnest pleading! ... With wonderful and ennobling grace the Lord sanctifies the humble petitioner, giving him power to perform the most difficult duties. All that is undertaken is done unto the Lord, and this elevates and sanctifies the lowliest calling. It invests with new dignity every word, every act, and links the humblest worker ... with the highest of the angels in the heavenly courts....
The sons and daughters of God have a great work to do in the world. They are to accept the Word of God as the man of their counsel and to impart it to others. They are to diffuse light. All who have received the engrafted word will be faithful in giving that word to others. They will speak the words of Christ. In conversation and in deportment they will give evidence of a daily conversion to the principles of truth. Such believers will be a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men, and God will be glorified in them.
(Our Father Cares EGW)
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