Quote from Forum Archives on January 23, 2003, 10:25 pm

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,

Do you know what it is like to be exposed? I don't mean
physically exposing our bodies, I mean exposing our deeds. In
today's message, the late Oswald Chambers, in his well known "My
Utmost For His Highest" devotional series, writes about the
transformed nature of a person who has been filled with the
Spirit of our Holy God.

I have to confess that the search for full time, stable
employment so that I can support my family continues to at least
attempt to battle and obscure my personal relationship with God.
I've had my moments, but actually, as I struggle, I end up
yearning for God even more. It is my prayer that whether you
find yourself in a comfortable or uncomfortable position today,
you would not allow even what seems to be the essentials in life
to cloud or interfere with your personal relationship with God.
After all, God made all things, and He knows just what we need.
We're the ones who often have difficulty seeing it, and I'm the
first in line to admit that!

Thanks be to God for His great patience with me!

Your Brother in Christ,
Brian

My Utmost for His Highest
Transformed By Insight

"We all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of
the Lord, are changed into the same image." 2 Corinthians 3:1

The outstanding characteristic of a Christian is this unveiled
frankness before God so that the life becomes a mirror for other
lives. By being filled with the Spirit we are transformed, and
by beholding we become mirrors. You always know when a man has
been beholding the glory of the Lord, you feel in your inner
spirit that he is the mirror of the Lord's own character. Beware
of anything which would sully that mirror in you; it is nearly
always a good thing, the good that is not the best.

The golden rule for your life and mine is this concentrated
keeping of the life open towards God. Let everything else -
work, clothes, food, everything on earth - go by the board,
saving that one thing. The rush of other things always tends to
obscure this concentration on God. We have to maintain ourselves
in the place of beholding, keeping the life absolutely spiritual
all through. Let other things come and go as they may, let other
people criticize as they will, but never allow anything to
obscure the life that is hid with Christ in God. Never be
hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him. It is the one
thing that is apt to fluctuate but it ought not to. The severest
discipline of a Christian's life is to learn how to keep
"beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord."

Heartlight wants to thank Oswald Chambers Publications for their
kind permission to make this available on our website.
www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/my_utmost/utm.cgi

Taken from My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. (c)
l935 by Dodd Mead & Co., renewed (c) 1963 by the Oswald Chambers
Publications Assn., Ltd., and is used by permission of Barbour
Publishing, Uhrichsville, Ohio. All rights reserved.

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

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