Shalom,

I love today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers!

Don’t Calculate Without God

Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. — Psalm 37:5

Don’t calculate without God. 

God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

In our religion it is customary to put God first, but we are apt to think it is an impertinence to put Him first in the practical issues of our lives. If we imagine we have to put on our Sunday moods before we come near to God, we will never come near Him. We must come as we are.

Don’t calculate with the evil in view. 

Does God really mean us to take no account of the evil? “Love…taketh no account of the evil”.  Love is not ignorant of the existence of the evil, but it does not take it in as a calculating factor. Apart from God, we do reckon with evil; we calculate with it in view and work all our reasonings from that standpoint.

Don’t calculate with the rainy day in view. 

You cannot lay up for a rainy day if you are trusting Jesus Christ. Jesus said — “Let not your heart be troubled.” God will not keep your heart from being troubled. It is a command — “Let not.…” Haul yourself up a hundred and one times a day in order to do it, until you get into the habit of putting God first and calculating with Him in view.

I like how he speaks of "putting on our Sunday moods"! Christianity is NOT a behavior pattern, a nice way of speaking and acting, or a set of rules and regulations so that we can be acceptable to people! True Christianity is having intimate fellowship with our Lord and Saviour, by His Spirit Who lives IN us! It is a lifestyle of living in His provision and doing what HE has instructed us to do! We are HIS ambassadors  in the earth. We are citizens of Heaven, representing on earth what living in Heaven looks like! Find out what is available to you as a born again believer. Now find out what is expected of you as HIS ambassador, a member of His family, of His body and of the CHURCH! Now, with all of the provisions of HEaven available to you, be about your Father's business! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Children of the Light", which shows what we should be doing! 

Shalom in Him!