Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is going to be a hard one for some of us to hear! Before you read this, prepare yourself to accept the instruction, no, the COMMAND, given by the Lord our God, trusting in HIM for the ability to do so!
One Of God’s Great Don’ts
Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil doing. — Psalm 37:8
Fretting
means getting out at elbows mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say
“Fret not,” but a very different thing to have such a disposition that you find
yourself able not to fret. It sounds so easy to talk about resting in the Lord
and waiting patiently for Him, until the nest is upset — until we live, as so
many are doing, in tumult and anguish, is it possible then to rest in the Lord?
If this “don’t” does not work there, it will work nowhere. This “don’t” must
work in days of perplexity as well as in days of peace, or it never will work.
And if it will not work in your particular case, it will not work in anyone
else’s case. Resting in the Lord does not depend on external circumstances at
all, but on your relationship to God Himself.
Fussing
always ends in sin. We imagine that a little anxiety and worry are an
indication of how really wise we are; it is much more an indication of how
really wicked we are. Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
Our Lord never worried and He was never anxious, because He was not “out” to
realise His own ideas; He was “out” to realise God’s ideas. Fretting is wicked
if you are a child of God.
Have
you been bolstering up that stupid soul of yours with the idea that your
circumstances are too much for God? Put all “supposing” on one side and dwell
in the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tell God that you will not fret
about that thing. All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
OUCH! Did anyone else find an area or two where YOU may be lacking in the "fret not" department? I did! I repented (changed MY thinking to agree with God) and received the forgiveness that is always present for me, because of the precious Blood of JESUS! Now I am resting in HIM to show me how to accomplish this, as I meditate on the Word of God! Establish for yourself, once and for all, that every command from God is for the purpose of HIM being able to get blessings TO us, and for US to be in position to receive! it is ALWAYS and EVER motivated by Hisd great LOVE for us! Now GO! Get YOUR life in order so you can begin to walk in the FULLNESS (John 10:10 AMP)! Here is Hillsong UNITED again with "Shadow Step"! (Because we are dwelling in the shadow of the ALMIGHTY! AMEN!)
Shalom in Him!
