PROMISE FOR JULY 20TH

"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you." John 15:16

The world does not like these chosen ones because, confessing their own weaknesses and striving against them, they call them by their proper names--sins, meannesses, filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Every effort made by these to cleanse themselves is a reproof to others who are not striving to cleanse themselves, and who hate to be reminded that the things in which they take their greatest pleasure are greed, selfishness, inordinate affections, strifes, pride, vainglory. Whoever is fully satisfactory to the world may be sure that he is not satisfactory to the Lord. Whoever is satisfactory to the Lord need not expect to be satisfactory to the world; for the fellowship of this world is enmity to God, and therefore, the world is not subject to the Divine standard, neither indeed can be....Its heart is in the other direction. R5737,c2,p5