23/06/2022
“𝗘𝗽𝗵𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱.”
📖Hosea 7:8📖
A cake not turned is uncooked on one side; and so Ephraim was, in many respects, untouched by divine grace: though there was some partial obedience, there was very much rebellion left.
My soul, I charge you, see whether this be your case. Are you thoroughly in the things of God? Has grace gone through the very centre of your being so as to be felt in it's divine operations in all your powers, your actions, your words, and your thoughts? To be sanctified, spirit, soul, and body, should be thine aim and prayer; and although sanctification may not be perfect in you, anywhere in degree, yet it must be universal in it's action; there must not be the appearance of holiness in one place and reigning sin in another, else you, too, wilt be a cake not turned.
A cake not turned is soon burnt on the side nearest the fire, and although no man can have too much religion, there are some who seem burnt black with narrow minded for that part of truth which they have received, or are burned to ashes with a vainglorious Pharisaic pretending of those religious performances which suit their humour.
The saint in public is a devil in private. He deals in flour by day and in soot by night. The cake which is burned on one side, is dough on the other.
If it be so with me, O Lord, turn me! Turn my unsanctified nature to the fire of Your love and let it feel the sacred glow, and let my burnt side cool a little while I learn my own weakness and want of heat when I am removed from Your heavenly flame. Let me not be found a double-minded man, but one entirely under the powerful influence of reigning grace; for well I know if I am left like a cake unturned, and am not on both sides the subject of Your grace, I must be consumed forever into everlasting burnings.
Examine ourselves always🥰
Thank You Jesus for this message. No one is exempted to this message.
It is truly indeed that the word of the Lord is sharper than any two-edged sword🙏💕
Good morning everyone🌻