Word for Today, Tue, 14 Dec 2004: The Great Life
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
Dear friends,
Today's devotional message comes from Oswald Chambers' My Utmost
For His Highest, which can be found in a couple of locations.
Gospelcom.net offers a Web page version and a link to the Oswald
Chambers Publications. This particular message came to me in
Email form and is edited for noncommercial inclusion into
today's message. I encourage you to visit both Gospelcom.net
and heartlight.org.
Yours in Christ,
Brian
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December 14, 2004
THE GREAT LIFE
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: . .
Let not your heart be troubled.
John 14:27
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=joh+14:27&sr=1
Whenever a thing becomes difficult in personal experience, we
are in danger of blaming God, but it is we who are in the wrong,
not God, there is some perversity somewhere that we will not let
go. Immediately we do, everything becomes as clear as daylight.
As long as we try to serve two ends, ourselves and God, there is
perplexity. The attitude must be one of complete reliance on
God. When once we get there, there is nothing easier than living
the saintly life; difficulty comes in when we want to usurp the
authority of the Holy Spirit for our own ends.
Whenever you obey God, His seal is always that of peace, the
witness of an unfathomable peace, which is not natural, but the
peace of Jesus. Whenever peace does not come, tarry till it does
or find out the reason why it does not. If you are acting on an
impulse, or from a sense of the heroic, the peace of Jesus will
not witness; there is no simplicity or confidence in God,
because the spirit of simplicity is born of the Holy Ghost, not
of your decisions. Every decision brings a reaction of
simplicity.
My questions come whenever I cease to obey. When I have obeyed
God, the problems never come between me and God, they come as
probes to keep the mind going on with amazement at the
revelation of God. Any problem that comes between God and myself
springs out of disobedience; any problem, and there are many,
that is alongside me while I obey God, increases my ecstatic
delight, because I know that my Father knows, and I am going to
watch and see how He unravels this thing.
MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - by Oswald Chambers //
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