God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Even pagan savages cry out to someone or something to aid them in times of danger and disaster and distress. How much more should we that know the true God.
The only safe evidence that we are in Christ is a holy life. John said everyone who has within him the hope of eternal life purifies himself just as Christ is pure (1 John 3:3). Paul said, “Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God” (Romans 8:14). If we know nothing of holiness, we may flatter ourselves that we are Christians but we do not have the Holy Spirit dwelling within us.
