Today I want to share "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. As I have mentioned before, some of his writings are worded differently than we are used to, but the message is right on point!
Getting There
Come ye after Me. — Mark 1:17
Where the Selective Affinity Dies and the Sanctified Abandon Lives
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of
temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to
coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He
pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that
we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours;
there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to
yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will
make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed. The one
mark of a saint is the moral originality which springs from abandonment to
Jesus Christ. In the life of a saint there is this amazing wellspring of
original life all the time; the Spirit of God is a well of water springing up,
perennially fresh. The saint realizes that it is God Who engineers
circumstances, consequently there is no whine, but a reckless abandon to Jesus.
Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with
other people as He is with you.
If you abandon to Jesus, and come when He says “Come,” He will continue
to say “Come” through you; you will go out into life reproducing the echo of
Christ’s “Come.” That is the result in every soul who has abandoned and come to
Jesus. Have I come to Jesus? Will I come now?
Shalom in Him!
