The Watchman
the full reward
“Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things
which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward”
2 John 1:8
As the soldier who stands at the night watch on the field of battle, we dare not slumber and grow careless. The subtleness of the night season is one fraught with many dangers. The enemy is subtle and cunning and walks about as a roaring lion seeking those whom he may devour. His eyes are attentive and his wrath is cruel; he looks for those who in the wee hours of the morning their eyes are growing dim and the deceptiveness of slumber is infecting. It is in the night watch where the danger lurks and the slumbering ones lose their crowns.
“The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep:
and none of the men of might have found their hands”
Psalm 76:5
Look to yourselves! Shake the slumber and sleep from our eyes for the Day creeps upon us as a “thief in the night”. It is a day of great deception, a deception so deep and filled with such peril whereby we need the ministration of His Spirit unto one another to stand true with our eyes attentive, our hearts awake and that we be clothed in the full armour of God. The true in heart are in pursuit of the full reward. There is a fulness which is promised to all… yet, as revealed in the seven letters to the Church in the Book of Revelation; only the overcomers receive the prize.
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all,
but one receiveth the prize?
So run, that ye may obtain“
1 Corinthians 9:24
The Word of the Lord for this hour is one to which we need to give heed…
“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day,
and having done all, to stand”
Ephesians 6:13
If there be no doing
there will be no standing!
It is the deceptive religious faith which holds the things of God in the slumber of a faithless inactivity where the enemy will come and the true state of an individual’s heart will be revealed.
“Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things
which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward”
2 John 1:8
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“Looking diligently
lest any man fail of the grace of God”
Hebrews 12:15
Brian Troxel
