{"id":4362,"date":"2009-06-23T15:36:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T19:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/200\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-06-23T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T19:36:18","slug":"vision-by-personal-character-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/06\/23\/vision-by-personal-character-3\/","title":{"rendered":"VISION BY PERSONAL CHARACTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come up hither, and I will shew thee things.<\/p>\n

— Revelation 4:1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An elevated mood can only come out of an elevated habit of personal
\ncharacter. If in the externals of your life you live up to the
\nhighest you know, God will continually say – “Friend, go up higher.”
\nThe golden rule in temptation is – Go higher. When you get higher up,
\nyou face other temptations and characteristics. Satan uses the
\nstrategy of elevation in temptation, and God does the same, but the
\neffect is different. When the devil puts you into an elevated place,
\nhe makes you screw your idea of holiness beyond what flesh and blood
\ncould ever hear, it is a spiritual acrobatic performance, you are
\njust poised and dare not move; but when God elevates you by His grace
\ninto the heavenly places, instead of finding a pinnacle to cling to,
\nyou find a great table-land where it is easy to move.<\/p>\n

Compare this week in your spiritual history with the same week last
\nyear and see how God has called you up higher. We have all been
\nbrought to see from a higher standpoint. Never let God give you one
\npoint of truth which you do not instantly live up to. Always work it
\nout, keep in the light of it.<\/p>\n

Growth in grace is measured not by the fact that you have not gone
\nback, but that you have an in sight into where you are spiritually;
\nyou have heard God say “Come up higher,” not to you personally, but
\nto the insight of your character.<\/p>\n

“Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?” God has to hide
\nfrom us what He does until by personal character we get to the place
\nwhere He can reveal it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Come up hither, and I will shew thee things. — Revelation 4:1 An elevated mood can only come out of an elevated habit of personal character. If in the externals of your life you live up to the highest you know, God will continually say – “Friend, go up higher.” The golden rule in temptation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}