Motives
Take heed—least, when you think you stand, you fall! Surely, I Am testing and revealing hidden motives of the heart. For I have said the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it—but the Lord? I see those things that you do in My name, and they are good and rightly brought forth for edification of My body. But you must guard against all high mindedness, envying and strife, which seeks to bring division in your midst, for I lift up, and I pull down. I bring one forth, and hold one back—to try the heart. In this way, that which wars within your members , and tempts you to err is revealed. Beware the hidden motives of the heart, and the subtlety of the flesh which secretly desires recognition, usurping My glory for itself, seeking the praise of men. I drop the plumbline of my word before you. Judge yourself in this matter. Hear Me! Love seeks not its own gain, but looks after the things of the Lord. Lo...