I really like today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers, AFTER I read it through twice! Let's look at it:
Something More About His
Ways
When
Jesus had made an end of commanding his disciples, he departed thence to teach
and to preach in their cities. — Matthew 11:1
He comes where He commands
us to leave. If when God said “Go,” you stayed, because you were so
concerned about your people at home, you robbed them of the teaching and
preaching of Jesus Christ Himself. When you obeyed and left all consequences to
God, the Lord went into your city to teach; as long as you would not obey, you
were in the way. Watch where you begin to debate and to put what you call duty
in competition with your Lord’s commands. “I know He told me to go, but then my
duty was here;” that means you do not believe that Jesus means what He says.
He teaches where He
instructs us not to. “Master,…let us make three tabernacles.” Are
we playing the spiritual amateur providence in other lives? Are we so noisy in
our instruction of others that God cannot get anywhere near them? We have to
keep our mouths shut and our spirits alert. God wants to instruct us in regard
to His Son, He wants to turn our times of prayer into mounts of
transfiguration, and we will not let Him. When we are certain of the way God is
going to work, He will never work in that way any more.
He works where He sends us
to wait. “Tarry
ye…until…” Wait on God and He will work, but don’t wait in
spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached
enough from our own spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit
with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
These are phases of His ways we rarely recognize.
This is just another way of saying two things:
- Cast your care on the LORD because HE cares for YOU! or "Let go and LET GOD!"
- Obedience is better than sacrifice!
Shalom in Him!