I want to share this from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers for today:
If you take
the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will
go to the left —Genesis
13:9
As soon as you begin to live the life of faith in God,
fascinating and physically gratifying possibilities will open up before you.
These things are yours by right, but if you are living the life of faith you
will exercise your right to waive your rights, and let God make your choice for
you. God sometimes allows you to get into a place of testing where your own
welfare would be the appropriate thing to consider, if you were not living the
life of faith. But if you are, you will joyfully waive your right and allow God
to make your choice for you. This is the discipline God uses to transform the
natural into the spiritual through obedience to His voice.
Whenever our right becomes the
guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight. The greatest enemy
of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite
good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. In this passage, it
would seem that the wisest thing in the world for Abram to do would be to
choose. It was his right, and the people around him would consider him to be a
fool for not choosing.
I really love this! As born again believers, there is nothing more that we need to do to have Heaven as our home when we leave this earth. There are, however, many decisions to be made in this life that will affect our quality of life here on earth, and will also help determine our rewards and level of responsibility in the next life! CHOOSE to be pleasing to HIM first of all! Not for what you can get, but for what pleasure it will give to HIM! AMEN! Here is Hillsong United with "Search My Heart":
Shalom in Him!
