Daily Devotionals by Ardith Keef

      "I am resolved no longer to linger.
       Charmed by the world's delight.
       Things that are higher, things that are nobler,
       These have allured my sight. . . "

      It is a beautiful and freeing thing for the Christian to hold more dear the things of heaven and eternity than he holds the resolution of today's problem.
     It  is also unusual.
      We give thought to and agreement with the things that God says about this, but we almost always put our weight down on the here and now.
     When I was first converted, I went to a meeting where a pastor's wife huffed in, obviously under great duress. She flounced down on the couch, and mumbled "though I give my body to be burned. ."
      Even though she clearly missed the meaning and context of the passage, she was missing a lot more. I could see that she was angry and had no intention of giving up that right.
      Brothers, we have no rights. Sisters, we have no rights.
      We have treasures and we have grace.
      But we have no rights. And until we seek out the sweetness of that, we have no freedom.
      The believer whose attention has really been caught eternal beauty is on his way to living in actual release!