"The steeper the mountain the better the view" Part 2 (I'M NOT GIVING UP)

 

 

This is the 186^th letter:

 

Text for the day: Jeremiah 17:9 (New King James Version)

 

“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; who can know it?”

 

Our Theme for the day: “The steeper the mountain the better the view” Part 2 (I’M NOT GIVING UP)

 

Our Devotional

Today we are looking at the second part of Jeremiah 17:9. In the creating of the world, the Lord designed that mankind should be active and useful. Casting visions for the care of the earth was second nature for Adam.  He before sin came on earth lived totally in Gods will without the propensity to sin. The Bible does not give us how much time Adam and Eve lived in Eden, but after sin entered the earth, Adam and his wife was put out of their Garden home. As Adams posterity grew and as more children where born to them, they started to live as useless machines, as though they hardly existed. Instead of them living to make others better, they brighten the path of none, and became a blessing to none. They lived only to burden others, so far as their influence on the side of right was concerned.

As we review this story we must ask ourselves these questions today. Is there any change in the people of the twenty-first century, or are they making the same mistakes as those of ages past? In the line of our relationship to God, and our fellow men, how many of you prize service to others as of highest priority in your life? Someone may be saying, “You don’t know what I have to go through everyday!” But I say to you, stop complaining, and break out of your excuses; we all have steep mountains to climb. In order for us to see what God wants us to see, we must go up some steep mountains, or meet some life test. In other words, we need to always remember “the steeper the Mountain the better the view.” Another way to answer this question correctly, I would dare say, is that many are in the same place the Israelites found themselves in during the days of their journey in the desert for forty years.

Like them we must admit that we have not been faithful stewards. Many today have forgotten that God has claims upon them and that He designs what they should be, godly and a blessing to others. With so much to do, sad to say some have fallen of the track of giving to others through selfish interest that has attracted their minds, and led them to a spirit of forgetfulness of God and His purpose in their life. But although you may find yourself at that place today remember, God has not given up on you. You may have given up on yourself. But He has not given up on you.

His words to you are, “Let all who profess to be servants of Jesus feel the duty that rests upon them to preserve their spirituality in him and their bodies in the best physical condition of health. Let them also feel the duty that rests upon them that their minds may be clear to comprehend heavenly things.” Remember the great controversy between good and evil is over the mind, so guard your heart according to the Bible, which is your mind. According to our text for the day we can only trust the word of God and not out hearts. “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; who can know it?” Who?
“God is wise in heart and mighty in strength” (Job 9:4). Stop what you are doing and give your heart to God. Ask Him to give you power to control your heart which is your mind, for it has a most powerful influence upon the health. The imagination left often misleads, and when indulged brings severe forms of disease upon the person. In other areas many die of diseases which are mostly imaginary. Think faith, talk faith, and live in an attitude of faith. Always remember, our relationship with God is liken to a marriage, work with it, because “The steeper the Mountain, the better the view.”

 

 

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This letter was written by Elder Kevin Santucci

 

 

Join us next time for another ray of sunshine from Garden Ministry when we shall look at, “TRIED FROM WITHIN.”

 

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Lord, today is a new day with renewed straight for this day. Keep us focus, because we are not giving up, in Jesus name, Amen.

 

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