Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is spot on for our times!
What man is he that feareth the Lord? — Psalm 25:12
What are you haunted by?
You will say — “By nothing,” but we are all haunted by something, generally by
ourselves, or, if we are Christians, by our experience. The Psalmist says we
are to be haunted by God. The abiding consciousness of the life is to be God,
not thinking about Him. The whole of our life inside and out is to be
absolutely haunted by the presence of God. A child’s consciousness is so
mother-haunted that although the child is not consciously thinking of its
mother, yet when calamity arises, the relationship that abides is that of the
mother. So we are to live and move and have our being in God, to look at
everything in relation to God, because the abiding consciousness of God pushes
itself to the front all the time.
If
we are haunted by God, nothing else can get in, no cares, no tribulation, no
anxieties. We see now why Our Lord so emphasized the sin of worry. How can we
dare be so utterly unbelieving when God is round about us? To be haunted by God
is to have an effective barricade against all the onslaughts of the enemy.
“His
soul shall dwell at ease.” In tribulation, misunderstanding, slander, in the
midst of all these things, if our life is hid with Christ in God, He will keep
us at ease. We rob ourselves of the marvellous revelation of this abiding
companionship of God. “God is our Refuge” — nothing can come through that
shelter.
Shalom in Him!
