Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Shalom,

Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is EXCELLENT! 

The Abandonment Of God

God so loved the world that He gave…. — John 3:16

Salvation is not merely deliverance from sin, nor the experience of personal holiness; the salvation of God is deliverance out of self entirely into union with Himself. My experimental knowledge of salvation will be along the line of deliverance from sin and of personal holiness; but salvation means that the Spirit of God has brought me into touch with God’s personality, and I am thrilled with something infinitely greater than myself, I am caught up into the abandonment of God.

To say that we are called to preach holiness or sanctification, is to get into a side eddy. We are called to proclaim Jesus Christ. The fact that He saves from sin and makes us holy is part of the effect of the wonderful abandonment of God.

Abandonment never produces the consciousness of its own effort, because the whole life is taken up with the One to Whom we abandon. Beware of talking about abandonment if you know nothing about it, and you will never know anything about it until you have realized that John 3:16 means that God gave Himself absolutely. In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculation. The consequence of abandonment never enters into our outlook because our life is taken up with Him.

I LOVE this! We sometimes allow ourselves to "pick and choose" whether or not, and when and where, we abandon ourselves into HIS perfect will and plan and purpose for our lives! HE gave Himself, once and for ALL, completely and without reserve FOR US! We now have a guaranteed  future outcome that CANNOT be taken from us! Meditate (Joshua 1:8 AMPC) on what HE has done for YOU! NOW, 'go thou and do LIKEWISE'! Give YOURSELF completely, and without reserve, into what HE has called and equipped you to do! When you do, you will THRIVE in every area of your life, and JESUS will be glorified! IN YOU! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "I Surrender":



Shalom in Him!