Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers has a very important message for every born again believer in JESUS!
Take The Initiative
Add to your faith virtue ["Furnish
your faith with resolution," moffatt]…. — 2 Peter 1:5
“Add” means there is something we have
to do. We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that
God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify
ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not
give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that
ourselves, we have to work out the salvation God has worked in. “Add” means to
get into the habit of doing things, and in the initial stages it is difficult.
To take the initiative is to make a beginning, to instruct yourself in the way
you have to go.
Beware of the tendency of asking the way
when you know it perfectly well. Take the initiative, stop hesitating, and take
the first step. Be resolute when God speaks, act in faith immediately on what
He says, and never revise your decisions. If you hesitate when God tells you to
do a thing, you endanger your standing in grace. Take the initiative, take it
yourself, take the step with your will now, make it impossible to go back. Burn
your bridges behind you — “I will write that letter”; “I will pay
that debt.” Make the thing inevitable.
We have to get into the habit of
hearkening to God about everything, to form the habit of finding out what God
says. If when a crisis comes, we instinctively turn to God, we know that the
habit has been formed. We have to take the initiative where we are, not
where we are not.
Shalom in Him!
