<![CDATA[SpiritualFamily.Net: Contentment and Joy.]]> https://spiritualfamily.net/discussion/view/10110/contentment-and-joy https://spiritualfamily.net/discussion/view/10110/contentment-and-joy Tue, 06 Feb 2018 13:41:08 -0500 https://spiritualfamily.net/discussion/view/10110/contentment-and-joy <![CDATA[Contentment and Joy.]]> Contentment and Joy

“It was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” (Jude 1:3)

"Seek not, then, for false peace and transient joy but rather for the assurance of faith and the sureties of divine sonship which yield composure, contentment, and supreme joy in the spirit."Jesus, The Urantia Book, (149:5.4)

After Jude had responded to the Holy Spirit’s prompting to direct his thoughts away from writing a gospel account, the intensity of the growing battle for “the faith” came into focus. Perhaps Jude was aware of Paul’s observation that we do not “wrestle” against ordinary forces, but our battle deals with the “spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).

May we all rely and depend on the responsibility of the Holy Spirit to “guide us like apostles of the Bible as we are the apostles of the now into all truth” (John 16:13).

Amen.

Abegunde Julius Taiwo.

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