Heaven Land Devotions - The Ordered Life

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The qualifications list for bishops and deacons really should be
qualifications for all believers. And not just qualifications per
se but the new life of Christ living within us.


Each feature mentioned should already be active and at work in
everyone at some degree of growth. These are all elements of the
character of the new birth. The will being exercised in all paths
of this life.


Yes, it is necessary that these offices demand purity for good
reason. Purity is always a requirement in those who are over
other's lives.


I have read these passages for decades. Yet today I realized that
this must not be only for a "select" few, or those who stand
above the rest respectively.


Because though an individual can pass the check list of
requirements, they can still be unqualified by the Holy Ghost,
the Searcher, who can see sins beneath. Sins of disposition,
secret sins, and "darkness in part."


Should these few only stand as a special class and the body of
Christ be anything less? Should this list stand only for
leadership candidates alone?


Sadly and unfortunately this has long been the case. Many stand
afar off never thinking they are good enough, they never go any
further.


Never try to attain to these twenty-nine requirements in efforts
for position. Only those who in pure-hearted love for Jesus
Christ have His life flow in all these things naturally. Never in
any earthly office. Your aim will be much higher.


Love is at the deepest root of all these things. Walk in
lowliness and humbleness in all your journey Home to Heaven Land.


“It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He
creates” ― Amy Carmichael