Today I want to look again at "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers!
The Initiative Against Drudgery
Arise, shine. — Isaiah 60:1
We have to take the first step
as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will
not; but immediately we arise we find He is there. Whenever God inspires, the
initiative is a moral one. We must do the thing and not lie like a log. If we
will arise and shine, drudgery becomes divinely transfigured.
Drudgery is one of the
finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far
removed from anything to do with the ideal – the utterly mean,* grubby things;
and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually
real. Read John 13; we see there the Incarnate God doing the most desperate
piece of drudgery, washing fishermen’s feet, and He says – “If I then, your
Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s
feet.” It requires the inspiration of God to go through drudgery with the light
of God upon it. Some people do a certain thing and the way in which they do it
hallows that thing for ever afterwards. It may be the most commonplace thing,
but after we have seen them do it, it becomes different. When the Lord does a
thing through us, He always transfigures it. Our Lord took on Him our human
flesh and transfigured it, and it has become for every saint the temple of the
Holy Ghost.
*mean: as used here,
something or someone ordinary, common, low, or ignoble, rather than cruel or
spiteful.
I LOVE the very first sentence here! He is NOT saying that there is no God, but that we MUST take the first step as a natural, human decision and THEN God will work through us! We MUST speak His Word into our situations and THEN He will confirm that Word with signs, wonders and miracles (Mark 16:20)! The life that we, as born again believers, have been called to live is a life of faith, trust and confidence in God and His Word. This is a life that brings glory to HIS Name as we dare to believe, and then to step out and DO something! What do we do? We do, in general, what we see from the Word of God to do, and then specifically what Holy Spirit instructs us individually, and uniquely, to do. Don't fall into the trap of comparing yourself to anyone else, or of copying someone else. Be uniquely you, the very BEST you that you can be! AMEN! Here is Hillsong United with "You":
Shalom in Him!
