While everything comes in God’s order, now is the day of salvation from all that is outside of Jesus and unlike Jesus, and now is the time to begin to appreciate all the wealth of love, peace, joy, release, and redemption that are in Jesus.
We don’t have to wait until God’s kingdom comes over the whole earth before we enter into the kingdom ourselves. We don’t have to wait until Jesus comes so that every eye can see Him for Him to come into us and reign in us. We don’t have to die literally (Jesus has already done this for us). We only have to die to the things that keep us out of Jesus in order to enter into eternal life. “The sweet fields of Eden” are here if we will only enter and abide.
The life I am trying to write about… is so divinely natural that it can be lived best of all in terms of life itself. I know a man who has the beginnings of this life, and who yesterday walked over five miles, did manual labor part of the time, came in contact with various kinds of people, met practical problems, had a dream of larger service seemingly thwarted, went to a hospital, talked to a man sentenced to be electrocuted in a few days, saw a woman in tears, and attended a religious meeting, and was kept in peace, joy, and outflowing good will. There is no worry in God, no fear in Him, no lack of good and necessary things. God’s will for us is to live in Him now, to live in Jesus and the Spirit, and to live in and manifest His love, joy, and peace.
The painful struggle is on the outside of Him. In Him is infinite peace, undisturbed joy, and freedom from self effort and anxious care. In Him is release and redemption now.
From The Macon Telegraph, Feb. 3, 1929. Editorial by Rufus Moseley.
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