“As many as I love, I reprove and chasten.” Revelation
3:19
How different were these Christians at Laodicea from those
whom the Lord recognized as truly rich at Smyrna. The Laodiceans may well have
been marvelous Christians with much of which to be proud, but it would have
been better if they had not themselves boasted of it but had left it to others
to applaud them.
Spiritual things are not to be boasted of. One can boast
of worldly riches, and the paper money will not fly away unspent nor will the
amount magically decrease, but the spiritual riches you boast of vanish with
the telling. When a Christian says he is strong, at that moment his strength
has gone. lf the face of a Moses really shines, he is never the one to be aware
of it. We always hope that we are growing spiritually, but it is not for us to
appraise our own progress.
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