I want to share, and explain my take on, today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. Because he used such a different way of speaking back then than what we are familiar with, we can miss the message for lack of understanding the simplicity of it!
Prayer In The Father’s House
Wist ye not that I must be in My
Father's house? — Luke 2:49 (RV)
Our Lord’s childhood was not
immature manhood; our Lord’s childhood is an eternal fact. Am I a holy innocent
child of God by identification with my Lord and Saviour? Do I look upon life as
being in my Father’s house? Is the Son of God living in His Father’s house in
me?
The abiding Reality is God, and
His order comes through the moments. Am I always in contact with Reality, or do
I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the
moments of my life? I have to learn to identify myself with my Lord in holy
communion in ways some of us have not begun to learn as yet. “I must be about
My Father’s business” (KJV) — live the moments in My Father’s house.
Narrow it down to your individual
circumstances — are you so identified with the Lord’s life that you are simply
a child of God, continually talking to Him and realizing that all things come
from His hands? Is the Eternal Child in you living in the Father’s house? Are
the graces of His ministering life working out through you in your home, in
your business, in your domestic circle? Have you been wondering why you are
going through the things you are? It is not that you have to go
through them, it is because of the relation into which the Son of God has come
in His Father’s providence in your particular sainthood. Let Him have His way,
keep in perfect union with Him.
The vicarious life of your Lord
is to become your vital simple life; the way He worked and lived among men must
be the way He lives in you.
The true reality for the born again believer is that we are no longer who we were before we received JESUS as Lord and Saviour! We WERE sinners, serving satan! Once we called on the Name of the Lord to be saved, we were recreated by the Spirit of Almighty God, in our spirits, into the image of God! We are now members of the family of God, with God as our Father and Holy Spirit living IN US! We SHOULD be in continual contact with HIM! We should be having a living and continual fellowship with HIM. NOT just when we need something, but moment by moment through our daily lives! When we choose to live life in that way, we will be walking in the continual protection, provision and safety of the Lord, and in His leading, guidance and direction, also! THAT is the New Covenant priceless privilege that we have available! Are YOU taking advantage of all that is available to you as a child of the Living God? I hope so! Because when we do, we will be much more valuable to the lives of all of those with whom we come in contact with. THAT is why we are here now, rather than going immediately to Heaven! HE has left us here to reach the many 'ones' that are still lost! Let's be about our Father's business! AMEN! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "GO":
Shalom in Him!
