Daily Devotionals by Ardith Keef

     You must cut a straight course. 
     What the other one does must not cause you to veer.  If it does, it is a reflection on
your immaturity rather than the thing the other one has done.
     We answer to the Lord.  We do not answer to a human balance of events.
     Has something been aimed at you?  Your shelter is the Rock of Ages - not the 
offender's correction or punishment.
     Soldier, you absolutely must learn The Ministry of Grace.  It comes from Heaven, 
and is a flow from the Holy Spirit.  It is not natural and will never happen if you must
be vindicated.
     When you are corrected do you have to immediately justify or defend yourself?
If so, you are blind to the thing that happened, and you have eliminated your own
capacity to minister grace when you are in the right.
     We have a standard - Jesus.
     His giving Himself as a Ransom for Many is stunning beautiful and it must be 
attractive to the Soldier of the Cross to be like Him.
     That means situations in which there is opportunity to make choices which will 
result in his Likeness being made in us.
     Then there will be Peace in false accusation.
     Then there will be sanity when the other is not sane.
     Then there will be calm in the middle of the storm.
     Then there will be the pure, penetrating Presence of Jesus.