Watch Tower Duty is Not a Time to Play Cards

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Titus 2:11-15

This article was written thinking about the Church and yet for myself I want to take it personal. Glean from it what you might like, but the Truth stands that if we truly want to be saved of the Grace of God we must make sure we are indeed justified in His Righteousness as we know it in the Bible. We do not want to trust our own righteousness. For example we say times change and start looking around in comparisons to see how we want to live or believe instead of finding our direction from God. I think I am a good person because I don't do this or this........will not cut it. We first and foremost need to make sure we are where God wants us.

As for tower duty the best way to wipe the sleep from your eyes, Is to fall on your face and fear God. Be open with yourself--Is there anything you trying to hide from God. Are you covered by the grace. Do you bear good fruit that is fruit of repentance? Repentance is the vision of what it means to really feel sorry for your sins. Sins are pride and acts contrary to God's will or law.

Is there not

handwriting on the wall? It is over time to take serious stock of what the

Lord is telling us. The Lord is long suffering but he will not always strive

with flesh. He is totally justified in His righteousness to remove the

candle stick from whom he will because no one or ones can stand. It is only

through grace that we can be saved. (Grace is the gift of God to take away our sins and guilt if we will accept Jesus Christ sacrifice on our behalf.) That said this is really a spiritual time of dust and ashes.

The Church and Grace will stand, but will we continue in them or will we seek

our own proving and righteousness. Think about it in the light of what is

being said. There was a fire, their was a wind, and then a still small

voice. The Lord really has already told us his warning in the conference.

It's only out of his goodness he is reminding us over an extended period of

time. I'm not talking about certain issues, I am talking about repenting. A person

cannot repent until he sees the error of his way. That is why this is a time

of searching, we all hold the guilt in our hands. We recognize these areas

in our own life and bring them to the light. It is time for a little

"righteous indignation" and general movement of being tired of these state

of affairs. I am not worried about the Bride of Christ, it will stand. Do we

believe we are in an automatic default mode of once saved always saved even

though our fruits are increasing to the contrary? There will always be a

certain amount of problems, but where is genuine vision and repentance these

days? Do we really see are our nakedness and need to make sure our lives are

covered by the blood. Why else are we to Watch and Pray? To be on watch

tower duty is not a time to play cards.

Imagine......

1. John the Baptist saying, let's quite the locusts and get on with the

caviar, the kingdom is at hand.

2. Jesus saying even though these men have made the temple in this part a

den and market of thieves and a racket, lets focus on the fact it is still a

beautiful building.

3. Jesus blessed the fig tree and instead of cursed it for being fruitless

4. Paul would have said, well lets just accept the fact that Peter wants to

sit with his fellow Jews instead of the believing Gentiles. Let's be

balanced because he walked with Jesus in the flesh and the spirit, so it

cannot hurt this time.

Look at Nineveh. A reluctant Jewish prophet called Jonah comes into their midst. Surely

they could see he really wished they would perish. How did they see their

need instead of getting angry?

Remember these are the Last Times. We say it pretty lightly anymore, do we

mean it?

I guess maybe some would say perhaps I have a slightly warped view? I look

at pilgrim and strangers as moving toward Heaven and are focused on making

sure they stay on the right road. There is alot of dust and toil, but we are

fleeing the city of destruction being raided by hell hounds for bandits. We

are at the fork in the road and need to keep the caravan on the right road.

Where there is excessive smoke there is fire, and I want to rather be caught having a bucket of water in

my hands instead of a fiddle.

JLT