LIVING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD AUGUST 14, 2025

 

LIVING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD AUGUST 14, 2025

 

To the Saints in every corner of God’s Kingdom,

 

As we near the middle of, the eighth month of 2025, I know, for some, and am sure for others that things have been and are pretty difficult to handle and deal with. We each have to try to resolve all the things that affect us every minute of the day and in so many ways. Even in the midst of great faith, we are constantly challenged by various afflictions and interactions that can easily change the course of our lives IF we place them above God.

 

The scriptures tells us there is nothing new under the sun, but when something affects us personally, it becomes a new adventure or trial of our faith. It seems difficult for us to really grasp the significance of things that happen that are not particularly close to us, physically or spiritually. I’m sure every congregation has a weekly prayer list that is fairly long. Some are people we may not know and it is often hard to have that feeling of empathy, especially if it is something we have not experienced.

 

In the midst of such things, how do you often feel or what do you think? Was James really serious in James 1:2-4 when he says, “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into many afflictions, 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” Of course, he was serious, because he, along with many others over the years have truly suffered for the cause of Jesus. James was pushed off a ledge on the temple and stoned to death. The real joy comes when we face God and He knows we suffered for His purposes and we receive our reward.

 

Pure joy is when it looks like everything is falling apart, and we turn to the ONE who holds all, things together. Joy is not merely a fleeting emotion, but a deep-seated enduring state of well-being and contentment that transcends circumstances. Joy is not dependent on external factors or happiness but rather stems from an inner sense of peace and fulfillment even in the midst of hardship.

 

Arthur Oakman in his “Endowment Series,” makes the following statements:

‘”If only we could gather to ourselves the conviction that what goes on inside us is much more important than what goes on around us.

We know that from the deeps within each one of us there dwells the record, the image, and the Spirit of the living God.

The life and ministry of Jesus Christ our Lord was played out in the world around us, outside us, in order that it might be created in us.

For in you is that power by which every circumstance of life can be taken and made to serve the cause of the Kingdom.

When I experience within myself the knowledge of the Son of God, then all else vanishes into insignificance.

Will what I am doing advance the cause of the Kingdom? If it will not, it has no place in our lives. That is the way to endowment.

Brethren, shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren, and on, on to the victory! (DC 110:22a)”

 

God bless

Paul Gage

 

 

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