Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is another excellent admonition to the born again believer!
The Unheeded Secret
My kingdom is not of this world. — John 18:36
The great enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ
in the present day is the conception of practical work that has not come from
the New Testament, but from the Systems of the world in which endless energy
and activities are insisted upon, but no private life with God. The emphasis is
put on the wrong thing. Jesus said, “The kingdom of God cometh not with
observation;…for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you,” a hidden, obscure
thing. An active Christian worker too often lives in the shop window. It is the
innermost of the innermost that reveals the power of the life.
We have to get rid of the plague of the
spirit of the religious age in which we live. In Our Lord’s life there was none
of the press and rush of tremendous activity that we regard so highly, and the
disciple is to be as His Master. The central thing about the kingdom of Jesus
Christ is a personal relationship to Himself, not public usefulness to men. It
is not its practical activities that are the strength of this Bible Training
College, its whole strength lies in the fact that here you are put into soak
before God. You have no idea of where God is going to engineer your
circumstances, no knowledge of what strain is going to be put on you either at
home or abroad, and if you waste your time in over-active energies instead of
getting into soak on the great fundamental truths of God’s Redemption, you will
snap when the strain comes; but if this time of soaking before God is being
spent in getting rooted and grounded in God on the un-practical line, you will
remain true to Him whatever happens.
This is SO important! When JESUS told Martha, in Luke 10:42, that Mary had chosen the better part, He was telling us all!
There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the good portion [that which is to her advantage], which shall not be taken away from her.
What had Mary chosen that Martha had not? She had chosen to stop all of the hustle and bustle of busyness and to sit at the feet of JESUS to hear His Words! So many Christians think that they have to be busy about doing things that prove their faith, when doing exactly as Mary did is the ONLY thing that will enable us to walk in the power and authority of the Word of God as JESUS did! HE said that we are to do the works that He did! HE didn't do those works until HE had spent time with His Father in prayer! Make sure that YOU are spending time, first of all, in intimate fellowship with the ONE Who has called you and anointed you in the first place! AMEN! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "Like Incense - Sometimes By Step":
Shalom in Him!
