Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is such a simple, yet profound instruction!
Getting There
Come unto Me. — Matthew 11:28
Where the Sin and the Sorrow Cease and the Song and the
Saint Commence
Do I want to get there? I can now. The questions that matter
in life are remarkably few, and they are all answered by the words — “Come unto
Me.” Not — “Do this, or don’t do that”; but — “Come unto Me.” If I will come to
Jesus my actual life will be brought into accordance with my real desires; I
will actually cease from sin, and actually find the song of the Lord begin.
Have you ever come to Jesus? Watch the stubbornness of your
heart, you will do anything rather than the one simple childlike thing — “Come
unto Me.” If you want the actual experience of ceasing from sin, you must come
to Jesus.
Jesus Christ makes Himself the touchstone. Watch how He used
the word “Come.” At the most unexpected moments there is the whisper of the
Lord — “Come unto Me” and you are drawn immediately. Personal contact with
Jesus alters everything. Be stupid enough to come and commit yourself to what
He says. The attitude of coming is that the will resolutely lets go of
everything and deliberately commits all to Him.
“And I will give you rest” i.e., I will stay you. Not
— I will put you to bed and hold your hand and sing you to sleep; but — I will
get you out of bed, out of the languor and exhaustion, out of the state of
being half dead while you are alive; I will imbue you with the spirit of life,
and you will be stayed by the perfection of vital activity. We get pathetic and
talk about “suffering the will of the Lord”! Where is the majestic vitality and
might of the Son of God about that?
AMEN! The Christian life was NEVER, EVER meant to be a life of struggle and trial to ACT like a 'good Christian'! We were designed by Almighty God to have CONTINUAL, INTIMATE fellowship with HIMK, by the Spirit of GOD Who lives IN US! We do NOT have to travel to some wilderness place, wear sackcloth and ashes, beat ourselves silly, or any other FLESHLY thing! IN fact, those things do NOTHING towards getting closer to HIM! What does? He said it over and over above! JESUS said: COME TO ME! That means set aside every other thought and simply spend time in His presence! BELIEVE that HE IS inside of you! THAT is the greatest distance that we have to travel to fellowship with HIM! And in HIS presence is fullnes of JOY, and every other good thing that we have need of! HALLELUJAH! We are to DO the WORKS that JESUS did, and that will ONLY happen when we know and develop confidence in Him by BEING WITH HIM! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Awake My Soul":
Shalom in Him!
