Just doing devotion this morning and remembered this....

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Subject: Just doing devotion this morning and remembered this....
From: Lannter <lannter@gmail.com>
To: koayyiwei1985@yahoo.com
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Heya YW, 

just contemplating during devo time what you once said about the difference between devout Christians and those who seem to get by being not-so-into-it Christians. Increasingly recently I see that there are two races of people in this world -- one belonging to the world who are welcomed by the world and one who is very different whom God handpicked, from in this world but out of it. When persecution arises which it already has started in OZ, the nominal Christians will fail and fall away, just as it has been written. Only those who endure will survive.

 It is not enough for the nominal ones to remain nominal, for even in them there exists people whom God has set apart as His own. We are His good managers who recognize the wheat from the tares, and are called to feed both in a timely manner so that they both grow until the angels harvest them with his sickle -- once for those who have washed their feet and hence their robes, and once for the grapes of His wrath for He has remembered their sins.

We gotta fortify His people in preparation for the trials ahead that will certainly come to pass, teaching them repentance and the fear of the Lord, lest we ourselves be deemed unworthy in faith and be cast out to shareth not in His inheritance as adopted sons. Yes, look at the skies -- He is coming soon. 

By their clothes they are judged

Waking to the office from the train station this morning and passed by the shops, and saw a faint reflection of myself from the glass windows and doors. I couldn't help but recall what I was told a while ago by a male friend I newly made, "Yeah, I thought that was the kind of person you are, because of your glasses and what you wear."

In that case, I thought this morning as I waited for the traffic light outside Brisbane square, "If I wore righteousness on top of faith as an outer coat today, will people recognise that I'm aa child of God, soon to reign over the angels and all of creation with Him?"