Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers contains a lesson that is sometimes overlooked by born again believers because they do not realize how very important it is!
The Unblameable Attitude
If thou…rememberest that thy
brother hath ought against thee… — Matthew 5:23
If when you come to the altar,
there you remember that your brother has anything against you, not — If you
rake up something by a morbid sensitiveness, but — “If thou…rememberest,” that
is, if it is brought to your conscious mind by the Spirit of God: “first be
reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” Never object to
the intense sensitiveness of the Spirit of God in you when He is educating you
down to the scruple.
“First be reconciled to thy
brother…” Our Lord’s direction is simple — “first be reconciled.” Go back the
way you came, go the way indicated to you by the conviction given at the altar;
have an attitude of mind and a temper of soul to the one who has something
against you that makes reconciliation as natural as breathing. Jesus does not
mention the other person, He says — you go. There is no question of
your rights. The stamp of the saint is that he can waive his own rights and
obey the Lord Jesus.
“And then come and offer thy
gift.” The process is clearly marked. First, the heroic spirit of
self-sacrifice, then the sudden checking by the sensitiveness of the Holy
Spirit, and the stoppage at the point of conviction; then the way of obedience
to the word of God, constructing an unblameable attitude of mind and temper to
the one with whom you have been in the wrong; then the glad, simple, unhindered
offering of your gift to God.
Shalom in Him!
