The Amish Voice 12
The Power of a Clean and Blameless Life
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He is the Loving Father I Run to, When:
I'm weeping either from sorrow, or sadness,
or pain, and He wipes away every tear from
my eye.
I'm feeling insecure and don't know which
way to turn.
I need a touch of His gentle hand on my
soul to remind me Who is in control of all
things in my life.
He is the Great I Am:
Who takes my breath away when I view His
magnificent creations!
Who causes the winds and the seas and the
sun to do His bidding!
Who makes the rocks cry out in praise to
Him!
He is the Potter:
Who lovingly molds my heart, and my life,
and my soul into just the right vessel to
reach my world.
Who burns out the dross of ambition, jeal-
ousy, selfishness, and ambivalence from my
heart.
Who brings me forth as gold, and then pol-
ishes and crafts the talents He has placed
within me. —
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Who Is My God
—by David Wilkerson
When you set your heart to walk blameless
before God—living in a way that is pleasing
to the Lord—you will be feared and despised
by those who have lost the favor and blessing
of God. Lukewarm or compromised Chris-
tians will be absolutely disturbed and repelled
by your life!
We see this illustrated vividly in 1 Samuel:
1 Samuel 18:12-15:
And Saul was afraid
of David, because the LORD was with
him, and was departed from Saul...And
David behaved himself wisely in all his
ways; and the LORD was with him.
Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved
himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.
David‟s blameless behavior struck fear in
Saul‟s heart! Whenever Saul was around Da-
vid, he remembered the time he had enjoyed
the favor of God and the high esteem of men.
But disobedience, envy, pride and self-will
had cost Saul every bit of power with God.
And it robbed him of all respect of the peo-
ple.
Now, Saul had come face to face with a
younger man—a less experienced, probably
less articulate, man—who exuded the power
and integrity of holiness. He was pure in
heart, full of the Holy Spirit and Saul was
afraid of him!
Keep in mind that this was no idolatrous pa-
gan who was afraid of David. No, Saul was a
man who had known the power of the Holy
Spirit! He had once been God‟s anointed, a
mighty man chosen of God!
David was simply living a clean life and God
was pouring out favor upon him!
1 Samuel 18:16:
But all Israel and
Judah loved David, because he went
out and came in before them.
Saul did not want to be around David. Scrip-
ture says:
1 Samuel 18:13:
Therefore Saul re-
moved him from him.
Sadly, Saul represents the compromised
church of today, those Christians who have
compromised and lost the anointing of God.
He is a type of the believer who once was full
of the Holy Spirit, baptized, on fire for God,
but has been robbed of everything they once
knew of God by their disobedience, pride and
lust.
There is nothing scarier to a compromised
Christian than a holy blameless life. And the
more your life lines up with the Lord‟s will
and His holiness, the more repelling you will
become to backslidden believers.
—by Dee Yoder