Jun 1987 - Editorial

How can the disciple consistently maintain holiness while: living in a world dominated by Satan? In our main series we have been trying to give some help on this ever present question and we now move on from instructive Old Testament examples to a consideration of the blessed person of our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that a reverent meditation on the Son of God "in the days of His flesh" will be helpful to the disciple intent on a daily sanctified walk with his God. Who can fail to be moved by the thought of "Jehovah's Servant treading sin-stained earth with heavenly grace"? Divine wisdom enabled Him to tread with consummate skill the straight path of separation from a sinful world yet nearness to the needy sinner and unbroken communion with His Father. It is encouraging to know that divine wisdom can be ours with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Focus returns this month to the changing pattern of terror and instability in the Middle East. Who would have thought a few years ago that tiny Israel would ever be of major concern to the great powers? But events in that part of the world move swiftly. A fresh page of history is being written before our eyes as Moslems increase in influence and bring pressure on the western nations in the Arab struggle against Israel. Can a disastrous conflagration be avoided? Whatever the outcome, the eternal divine purpose cannot be frustrated. Of ungodly nations the psalmist says:

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh:

The Lord shall have them in derision (Ps. 2:4).

unknown | Jun 1987
Editorial