Today's selection from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is VERY good!
Mathew 11:28: "Come to Me . . ."
Where sin and sorrow stops, and
the song of the saint starts. Do I really want to get there? I can right now. The questions
that truly matter in life are remarkably few, and they are all answered by
these words— “Come to Me.” Our Lord’s words are not, “Do this, or don’t do
that,” but— “Come to me.” If I will simply come to Jesus, my real life will be
brought into harmony with my real desires. I will actually cease from sin, and
will find the song of the Lord beginning in my life.
Have you ever come to Jesus? Look at the
stubbornness of your heart. You would rather do anything than this one simple
childlike thing— “Come to Me.” If you really want to experience ceasing from
sin, you must come to Jesus.
Jesus Christ makes Himself the test to
determine your genuineness. Look how He used the word come. At the most unexpected moments in your life there is this
whisper of the Lord— “Come to Me,” and you are immediately drawn to Him.
Personal contact with Jesus changes everything. Be “foolish” enough to come and
commit yourself to what He says. The attitude necessary for you to come to Him
is one where your will has made the determination to let go of everything and
deliberately commit it all to Him.
“. . . and I will give you rest”— that is, “I
will sustain you, causing you to stand firm.” He is not saying, “I will put you
to bed, hold your hand, and sing you to sleep.” But, in essence, He is saying,
“I will get you out of bed— out of your listlessness and exhaustion, and out of
your condition of being half dead while you are still alive. I will penetrate
you with the spirit of life, and you will be sustained by the perfection of
vital activity.” Yet we become so weak and pitiful and talk about “suffering”
the will of the Lord! Where is the majestic vitality and the power of the Son
of God in that?
THE most important commandment in all of the New Testament is found in these three portions of Scripture: Matthew 22:37-38; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27.
Matthew 22:37 And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). [Deut 6:5.] 38 This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment. AMP
Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. AMP
Luke 10:27 And he replied, You must love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself. AMP
Shalom in Him!
