Shalom,
I LOVE today's "My Utmmost For His Highest" devotional by Oswald Chambers!
What Do You Want?
Seekest thou great things for thyself? — Jeremiah 45:5
Are you seeking great things for yourself? Not seeking to
be a great one, but seeking great things from God for yourself. God wants you
in a closer relationship to Himself than receiving His gifts, He wants you to
get to know Him. A great thing is accidental, it comes and goes. God never
gives us anything accidental. There is nothing easier than getting into a right
relationship with God except when it is not God Whom you want but only what He
gives.
If you have only come the length of asking God for
things, you have never come to the first strand of abandonment, you have become
a Christian from a standpoint of your own. “I did ask God for the Holy Spirit,
but He did not give me the rest and the peace I expected.” Instantly God puts
His finger on the reason — you are not seeking the Lord at all, you are seeking
something for yourself. Jesus says — “Ask, and it shall be given you.” Ask God
for what you want, and you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing.
When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things. “Your Father
knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.” Then why ask? That you
may get to know Him.
Are you seeking great things for yourself — “O Lord,
baptize me with the Holy Ghost.” If God does not, it is because you are not
abandoned enough to Him, there is something you will not do. Are you prepared
to ask yourself what it is you want from God and why you want it? God always
ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection. He is not concerned
about making you blessed and happy just now; He is working out His ultimate
perfection all the time — “that they may be one even as We are.”
AMEN! THAT must be our ONLY motive for seeking HIM! Check yourself and make sure that your desires line up with the Word of God! When they do, nothing and no one can stop what GOD is about to do FOR YOU! HALLELUJAH! Here is Brandon Lake with "Tear Off The Roof":
Shalom in Him!
