Meekness Saves, Pride Destroys

                                        Zephaniah 2:3
                     "Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth,
                        which have wrought his judgment; seek
                               righteousness, seek meekness

         Seek ye the Lord!  He has exhorted sinners to penitence; and now He calls the righteous to persevere and increase more and more.  He bids believers, "seek diligently" and that with a three-fold call, to seek Him from whom they received daily the three-fold blessing;  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
        Those, he calls, are already, by the grace of God, "meek," and  Submitting themselves to the word of God, "judging themselves that they be-not judged;" the beginning of which judgment is, as sinners and guilty of death, to give themselves to the Cross of the Lord, that is, to be "baptized" in "His Death and be buried with Him by Baptism into death;" but the perfection of that judgment or righteousness is, to walk in newness of life, as He rose from the dead through the glory of the Father (Rom 6:3-4).
        This my friends is our call to duty.  Not just a one time call, or a when I can call!  It is a "Daily Call To Duty."  Our Duty is to hold to our Christianity and to increase in wisdom, but to seek it diligently through the three-fold blessing;  The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.  Our Mission Statement Is:  "Christ Died For Us, Let's live for Him."
        Amen!!

Reading: (Zeph. 2: 1-16)
               (Zeph. 3: 1-9)

                                    May God Bless You
                                     And Your Families

                                                 Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
                                                 The Cross Life Ministry