I really love today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers!
Living Your Theology
Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you… —John
12:35
Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on
the mountaintop with God. If you do not obey the light, it will turn into
darkness. “If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that
darkness!” (Matthew 6:23). The moment you forsake the matter of sanctification
or neglect anything else on which God has given you His light, your spiritual
life begins to disintegrate within you. Continually bring the truth out into
your real life, working it out into every area, or else even the light that you
possess will itself prove to be a curse.
The most difficult person to deal with is the one who has
the prideful self-satisfaction of a past experience, but is not working that
experience out in his everyday life. If you say you are
sanctified, show it. The experience must be so genuine that it shows in
your life. Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent or
self-gratifying; that belief came from the pit of hell itself, regardless of
how beautiful it may sound.
Your theology must work itself out, exhibiting itself in
your most common everyday relationships. Our Lord said, “…unless your
righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees,
you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:20). In other
words, you must be more moral than the most moral person you know. You may know
all about the doctrine of sanctification, but are you working it out in the
everyday issues of your life? Every detail of your life, whether physical,
moral, or spiritual, is to be judged and measured by the standard of the
atonement by the Cross of Christ.
I have known so many people who once were eagerly learning, and DOING, the Word of God and were growing consistently in their faith, and then something causes them to take their eyes off of the 'prize' from Philippians 3:14:
14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.
When this happens, people do not often realize that there is NO standing still in the things of God! We are either consistently moving and growing, or we are slipping back! Some of those I spoke of above pulled themselves up and got right back into being DOERS of the Word of God and growing up consistently! Sadly, many others simply quit and fell by the wayside, no longer believing what they once believed and getting no good results. This was NOT the will of God for them, but HE will NEVER force His will on any one of us! WE must decide! WE must choose HIM! Choose LIFE! Choose the WORD! And choose FREEDOM! It will not happen any other way! But YOU are not one to stop and slide back because you are right here, reading this and learning and growing and becoming a great DOER of God's Word! Great results await you! HALLELUJAH! Here is Hillsong with "Say The Word":
Shalom in Him!
