We read Proverbs 10 today in our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan. This Proverb points out with vivid clarity the differences between those who are hungry for the things of God and those who do not want to have anything to do with Him! Read and meditate on these differences and purpose in your own heart that you will ALWAYS go after intimate fellowship with the One, True God and that you will NEVER be as those who do not! Now I would like to share today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers:
The Next Best Thing to Do
Seek, and ye shall find. — Luke
11:9
Seek If You Have Not Found
“Ye ask, and receive not, because
ye ask amiss.” If you ask for things from life instead of from God, you ask
amiss, i.e., you ask from a desire for self-realisation. The more you realize
yourself the less will you seek God. “Seek, and ye shall find.” Get to work,
narrow your interests to this one. Have you ever sought God with your whole
heart, or have you only given a languid cry to Him after a twinge of moral
neuralgia? Seek, concentrate, and you will find.
“Ho, every one that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters.” Are you thirsty, or smugly indifferent — so satisfied
with your experience that you want nothing more of God? Experience is a
gateway, not an end. Beware of building your faith on experience, the metallic
note will come in at once, the censorious note. You can never give another
person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you
have.
“Draw nigh unto God.” “Knock and
it shall be opened unto you.” Knock — the door is closed, and you suffer from
palpitation as you knock. “Cleanse your hands” — knock a bit louder, you begin
to find you are dirty. “Purify your heart” — this is more personal still, you
are desperately in earnest now — you will do anything. “Humble yourself” — it is a humbling
business to knock at God’s door — you have to knock with the crucified thief.
“To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.”
AMEN! Every born again believer will be in Heaven when they leave this earth! BUT, the quality of our life here on earth and the rewards waiting for us in Heaven are ALL determined by what we do with what HE has given us HERE and NOW! AMEN! Seek HIM with your whole heart and be unwilling to settle for anything less than God's very best! HE desires that for you and for me! AMEN! Here is Hillsong UNITED with a song that I have begun to love about how our life here should look NOW! "Echoes (Til We See The Other Side)":
Shalom in Him!
