Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is EXCELLENT!
The Abandonment Of God
God so loved the world that He gave…. — John 3:16
Salvation is not merely deliverance from sin, nor the experience of
personal holiness; the salvation of God is deliverance out of self entirely
into union with Himself. My experimental knowledge of salvation will be along
the line of deliverance from sin and of personal holiness; but salvation means
that the Spirit of God has brought me into touch with God’s personality, and I
am thrilled with something infinitely greater than myself, I am caught up into
the abandonment of God.
To say that we are called to preach holiness or sanctification, is to
get into a side eddy. We are called to proclaim Jesus Christ. The fact that He
saves from sin and makes us holy is part of the effect of the wonderful
abandonment of God.
Abandonment never produces the consciousness of its own effort, because
the whole life is taken up with the One to Whom we abandon. Beware of talking
about abandonment if you know nothing about it, and you will never know
anything about it until you have realized that John 3:16 means that God gave Himself
absolutely. In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave
Himself for us, without any calculation. The consequence of abandonment never
enters into our outlook because our life is taken up with Him.
I LOVE this! We sometimes allow ourselves to "pick and choose" whether or not, and when and where, we abandon ourselves into HIS perfect will and plan and purpose for our lives! HE gave Himself, once and for ALL, completely and without reserve FOR US! We now have a guaranteed future outcome that CANNOT be taken from us! Meditate (Joshua 1:8 AMPC) on what HE has done for YOU! NOW, 'go thou and do LIKEWISE'! Give YOURSELF completely, and without reserve, into what HE has called and equipped you to do! When you do, you will THRIVE in every area of your life, and JESUS will be glorified! IN YOU! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "I Surrender":Shalom in Him!
