Today I want to share again from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers.
Disposition And Deeds
Except your righteousness shall
exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case
enter into the kingdom of heaven. — Matthew 5:20
The characteristic of a disciple
is not that he does good things, but that he is good in motive because he has
been made good by the supernatural grace of God. The only thing that exceeds
right doing is right being. Jesus Christ came to put into
any man who would let Him a new heredity which would exceed the righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees. Jesus says — “If you are My disciple you must be
right not only in your living, but in your motives, in your dreams, in the
recesses of your mind.” You must be so pure in your motives that God Almighty
can see nothing to censure. Who can stand in the Eternal Light of God and have
nothing for God to censure? Only the Son of God, and Jesus Christ claims that
by His Redemption He can put into any man His own disposition, and make him as
unsullied and as simple as a child. The purity which God demands is impossible
unless I can be remade within, and that is what Jesus has undertaken to do by
His Redemption.
No man can make himself pure by
obeying laws. Jesus Christ does not give us rules and regulations; His
teachings are truths that can only be interpreted by the disposition He puts
in. The great marvel of Jesus Christ’s salvation is that He alters heredity. He
does not alter human nature; He alters its mainspring.
Shalom in Him!