Today I want to share again from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. I don't usually share from the same source consecutively, but this is just too important to pass up!
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. — Genesis 9:13
It is the Will of God that human beings should get into moral relationship with Him, and His covenants are for this purpose. Why does not God save me? He has saved me, but I have not entered into relationship with Him. Why does not God do this and that? He has done it, the point is – Will I step into covenant relationship? All the great blessings of God are finished and complete, but they are not mine until I enter into relationship with Him on the basis of His covenant.
Waiting for God is incarnate unbelief, it means that I have no faith in Him; I wait for Him to do something in me that I may trust in that. God will not do it, because that is not the basis of the God-and-man relationship. Man has to go out of himself in his covenant with God as God goes out of Himself in His covenant with man. It is a question of faith in God – the rarest thing; we have faith only in our feelings. I do not believe God unless He will give me something in my hand whereby I may know I have it, then I say – "Now I believe." There is no faith there. "Look unto Me, and be ye saved." (Isaiah 45:22)
When I have really transacted business with God on His covenant and have let go entirely, there is no sense of merit, no human ingredient in it at all, but a complete overwhelming sense of being brought into union with God, and the whole thing is transfigured with peace and joy.
Once we have entered into relationship with the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible, THEN we must maintain a constant fellowship with Him in order to walk in the fullness of all that our Covenant with Him involves! HE has nothing left to do except to confirm HIS Word when WE speak it (Mark 16:20)! Stop waiting on God to do something! Find out what belongs to YOU as part of your Covenant with HIM through the Blood of Jesus! Now begin, and CONTINUE, to speak that promise (His Word) into your life. When you do this, you are finally giving HIM something He can work with! Now praise Him for the answer BEFORE you see it, which shows forth your confidence that God does not lie (Numbers 23:19)! HALLELUJAH! As a born again believer, you are, of all people, MOST BLESSED! Now let's spread THAT Good News around! Here is another Christmas song from Hillsong called "Unto Us":
Shalom in Him!
