Children of the Highest

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We are called “children of the Highest.” That title of the Lord, “the Highest,” speaks especially of what God is as made known in grace. He is so high that He is far above the unthankfulness and wickedness of man. He is good to the unthankful in spite of what we are. There can be no greater or more wondrous proposal than that we should come out as giving expression to God’s character in the presence of the evil that is here. God will bring out His children in glory very soon, and they will be all like Him then (Rom. 8:1919For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (Romans 8:19)), but He would have them to be manifested morally as acting like Him even now when things are so contrary.
Perhaps we do not really appreciate grace beyond the measure in which we express it. We all need to grow in it. Salt is the principle of faithfulness, which is applied practically in all the details of life so that no corrupting element is allowed to work. Ezra 7:2222Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. (Ezra 7:22) speaks of “salt without prescribing how much.”
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