S(Revelation 19:1,2) ... "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for His judgments are true and just ...."
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This loud exclamation erupted as a single response from Heaven's inhabitants. They had witnessed people's seemingly interminable passion for immoral sexuality, for callous commercialization of human souls, and for tunnel-visioned pursuit of luxury (chapter 18). After witnessing God's final judgment on love-resistant tormentors, these witnesses' spontaneous praise of God surpassed a joy that anyone else could have imagined.
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We don't fully appreciate this yet (1 Corinthians 13:12) because sin's seductive slurs still trick us. But recognizing the antinomy (conflicting regulations) within us helps us to clarify our vision. Gagnon wrote that our universal, internal conflict is between "God-orientation and self-orientation ... between the call to do the will of God and the desire to do one's own, or between the confession of God and Christ as Lord and the daily setting up of oneself as lord."
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Lord, I acknowledge that my true identity and purpose is based on Your image and Your call on my life as You've revealed through Your Word and by Your Spirit. I choose to organize my will, my passions, and my pursuits around Your identity and Your purposes ... I die to myself so I can live for You (Galatians 2:19, 20).
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