Today I want to again share "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. His unique way of speaking requires us to carefully consider what he is actually saying. This gives us another perspective on things that we already believe that can bring a greater depth of understanding!
The great marvel of the
Incarnation slips into ordinary childhood’s life; the great marvel of the
Transfiguration vanishes in the devil-possessed valley; the glory of the
Resurrection descends into a breakfast on the sea-shore. This is not an
anticlimax, but a great revelation of God.
The tendency is to look for
the marvellous in our experience; we mistake the sense of the heroic for being
heroes. It is one thing to go through a crisis grandly, but another thing to go
through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, no one
paying the remotest attention to us. If we do not want medieval haloes, we want
something that will make people say — “What a wonderful man of prayer he is!”
“What a pious devoted woman she is!” If you are rightly devoted to the Lord
Jesus, you have reached the sublime height where no one ever thinks of noticing
you, all that is noticed is that the power of God comes through you all the
time.
“Oh, I have had a wonderful
call from God!” It takes Almighty God Incarnate in us to do the meanest* duty
to the glory of God. It takes God’s Spirit in us to make us so absolutely
humanly His that we are utterly unnoticeable. The test of the life of a saint
is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set
up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of
God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions.
Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of
God is to be exhibited.
*mean: as used here, something
or someone ordinary, common, low, or ignoble, rather than cruel or spiteful.
I LOVE this! Most were expecting the Messiah to come as a conquering king! He came as a newborn baby, with 'diapers' to change! For most of us, the things that we will be rewarded for doing at the Reward Seat will be things that not many people, if any, even knew that we did! The obedience to that still small Voice of the Spirit of God. The prayers prayed in private, the encouragement given to someone discouraged, the sowing of seeds of faith and the preaching of the Gospel in one on one situations. All of these and many more daily happenings where we chose to go the Way of the Word rather than the way of the world! Make sure that YOU are living YOUR life in obedience to the plans and purposes of God for YOU, and your rewards will be many and multiplied! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "Crowns":
There is a hill I cherish
Where stood a precious tree
The emblem of salvation
The gift of Calvary
How is it I should profit
While He is crucified
Yet as His life was taken
So I was granted mine
My wealth is in the cross
There’s nothing more I want
Than just to know His love
My heart is set on Christ
And I will count all else as loss
The greatest of my crowns
Mean nothing to me now
For I counted up the cost
And all my wealth is in the cross
I will not boast in riches
I have no pride in gold
But I will boast in Jesus
And in His Name alone
And when I stand in glory
My crowns before the Lord
Let this be my confession
My wealth is in the cross
