Daily Devotional for September 23
Ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Jude 1:3
OUR good fight of faith consists in a considerable measure in our defense of the Word of God, which includes also our defense of the character of God. This will mean our willingness to stand for the Truth at any cost and against any number of assailants--against the creeds and theories of men, which would misrepresent the good tidings of great joy which the Lord and the apostles have announced, and which shall, thank God, yet be unto all people. As the apostle again says, "I am set for the defense of the Truth." We can do no less than defend the Truth. The Truth is God's representative, Christ's representative, and hence our standard, and as true soldiers we must defend our standard, even unto death. Z.'03-423 R3274:3
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Be thou strong and very courageous. Joshua 1:7
THERE never was a time when more strength of character and more courage were needed than just now. We need to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might....We do not know in what form some of our trials and tribulations will come. But we who are living in this “evil day,” yea, in the very close of this day--in the final “hour of temptation”--surely need to have on the whole armor of God. We need to have our loins girt about with truth; we need the helmet to protect our minds, our intellects, from the shafts of error; we need the breastplate of righteousness; we need the sword of the Spirit--the broad twoedged sword; we need the sandals of the “preparation of the Gospel of peace.” We need all of these to overcome the Canaanites in our own breast, and to overcome all the surrounding obstacles. `Z'15-182` R5707:5 (Hymn 300)
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