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"The high places were not removed from Israel.
Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days" - 2 Chronicles 15:17
Asa was not completely obedient in the outward, visible areas of his life. He
was obedient in what he considered the most important areas, but he was not
entirely right. Beware of ever thinking, “Oh, that thing in my life doesn’t
matter much.” The fact that it doesn’t matter much to you may mean that it
matters a great deal to God. Nothing should be considered a trivial matter by a
child of God. How much longer are we going to prevent God from teaching us even
one thing? But He keeps trying to teach us and He never loses patience. You say,
“I know I am right with God”— yet the “high places” still remain in your life.
There is still an area of disobedience. Do you protest that your heart is right
with God, and yet there is something in your life He causes you to doubt?
Whenever God causes a doubt about something, stop it immediately, no matter what
it may be. Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
Are there some things regarding your physical or intellectual life to which you
have been paying no attention at all? If so, you may think you are all correct
in the important areas, but you are careless— you are failing to concentrate or
to focus properly. You no more need a day off from spiritual concentration on
matters in your life than your heart needs a day off from beating. As you cannot
take a day off morally and remain moral, neither can you take a day off
spiritually and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely His, and it
requires paying close attention to keep yourself fit. It also takes a tremendous
amount of time. Yet some of us expect to rise above all of our problems, going
from one mountaintop experience to another, with only a few minutes’ effort.
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