Quote from Forum Archives on August 29, 2003, 1:29 pm

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,

Oswald Chambers always writes clearly about our relationship
with the Lord.

This edition, which has been copied from "Quick Verse", contains
some important words of caution about our personal attitudes
and actions.

I think it's an important reminder to all of us who claim
the Name of Christ, that we must also live as Christ has
shown to us, otherwise our claims and our words have little
substance.

These kinds of messages are sobering reminders to me, especially
if I am wallowing in something or just drifting along.

Hopefully this message will give you something important to
consider, too.

Yours in Christ,
Brian

August 27

Living Your Theology

"Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you "
(John 12:35). Beware of not acting upon what you see in your
moments on the mountaintop with God. If you do not obey the
light, it will turn into darkness. "If therefore the light that
is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew
6:23). The moment you forsake the matter of sanctification or
neglect anything else on which God has given you His light, your
spiritual life begins to disintegrate within you. Continually
bring the truth out into your real life, working it out into
every area, or else even the light that you possess will itself
prove to be a curse.

The most difficult person to deal with is the one who has the
prideful self-satisfaction of a past experience, but is not
working that experience out in his everyday life. If you say you
are sanctified, show it. The experience must be so genuine that
it shows in your life. Beware of any belief that makes you
self-indulgent or self-gratifying; that belief came from the pit
of hell itself, regardless of how beautiful it may sound. Your
theology must work itself out, exhibiting itself in your most
common everyday relationships. Our Lord said, " unless your
righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and
Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven"
(Matthew 5:20). In other words, you must be more moral than the
most moral person you know. You may know all about the doctrine
of sanctification, but are you working it out in the everyday
issues of your life? Every detail of your life, whether physical,
moral, or spiritual, is to be judged and measured by the standard
of the atonement by the Cross of Christ.

My Utmost for His Highest
Copyright (c) 1992 by Oswald Chambers Publications Association,
Ltd. Original edition copyright (c) 1935 by Dodd, Mead & Company,
Inc. Copyright renewed 1963 by Oswald Chambers Publications
Association, Ltd. United States publication rights are held by
Discovery House Publishers, which is affiliated with RBC
Ministries, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49512. All rights reserved.
Electronic Edition STEP Files Copyright (c) 1998, Parsons
Technology, Inc.

Author(s): Chambers, Oswald, 1874-1917

Publisher:
Discovery House Publishers
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Editor(s): James Reimann. Authorized by the Oswald Chambers
Publications Association, Ltd.

Electronic Edition Lead Editor: Walter Tee

ISBN: 0-929239-57-1

92-15394

Permission to quote:
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from The New
King James Version. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson,
Inc., Publishers.

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Brian Masinick, mailto:masinick@yahoo.com
Home page: www.geocities.com/masinick/

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