Word for Today, Thu, 11 Nov 2005: God's Aim
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
Dear friends,
Do you believe that God is able to work all things according to His
purpose, and that His purpose is altogether good? That's what we
discussed the other day.
Well, this message is about God's purpose, and surrendering our own
purposes and agendas and giving them to God. That might mean that we
may not be able to state with certainly what we will do or where we
will go, other than to state the fact that in whatever we do, we will
choose to serve the Lord.
How many of us surrender ourselves to God with that kind of abandon?
I believe the number is quite small, but hopefully it is not zero.
Yours in Christ,
Brian
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November 10, 2005
FELLOWSHIP IN THE GOSPEL
Fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:2
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=1th+3:2&sr=1
After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in life
is, because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Ghost;
He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used
His Son for the purpose of our salvation. If you seek great things
for yourself - God has called me for this and that; you are putting a
barrier to God's use of you. As long as you have a personal interest
in your own character, or any set ambition, you cannot get through
into identification with God's interests. You can only get there by
losing for ever any idea of yourself and by letting God take you
right out into His purpose for the world, and because your goings are
of the Lord, you can never understand your ways.
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using
me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that
I trust Him, and never say - Lord, this gives me such heart-ache. To
talk in that way makes me a clog. When I stop telling God what I
want, He can catch me up for what He wants without let or hindrance.
He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do any thing He chooses. He
simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.
Self pity is of the devil, if I go off on that line I cannot be used
by God for His purpose in the world. I have "a world within the
world" in which I live, and God will never be able to get me outside
it because I am afraid of being frost-bitten.
MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - by Oswald Chambers //
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http://www.heartlight.org/devotionals/my_utmost /
This devotional is copyright Oswald Chambers Publications,
< http://www.oswaldchambers.co.uk >.
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