Today I want to share "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers.
Faith
Without faith it is impossible to please Him. —Hebrews 11:6
Faith in antagonism to common sense is fanaticism, and
common sense in antagonism to faith is rationalism. The life of faith brings
the two into a right relation. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not
common sense; they stand in the relation of the natural and the spiritual; of
impulse and inspiration. Nothing Jesus Christ ever said is common sense, it is
revelation sense, and it reaches the shores where common sense fails. Faith
must be tried before the reality of faith is actual. “We know that all things
work together for good,” then no matter what happens, the alchemy of God’s
providence transfigures the ideal faith into actual reality. Faith always works
on the personal line, the whole purpose of God being to see that the ideal
faith is made real in His children. For every detail of the commonsense life,
there is a revelation fact of God whereby we can prove in practical experience
what we believe God to be. Faith is a tremendously active principle which
always puts Jesus Christ first — “Lord, Thou hast said so and so” (e.g.,
Matthew 6:33), “it looks mad, but I am going to venture on Thy word.” To turn
head faith into a personal possession is a fight always, not
sometimes. God brings us into circumstances in order to educate our faith,
because the nature of faith is to make its object real. Until we know Jesus,
God is a mere abstraction, we can not have faith in Him; but immediately we
hear Jesus say — “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father,” we have something
that is real, and faith is boundless. Faith is the whole man rightly related to
God by the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
I LOVE this! The underlined parts are especially REAL to me today! We are told in the 1 Timothy 6:12 that faith is a FIGHT!12 Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold of the eternal life to which you were summoned and [for which] you confessed the good confession [of faith] before many witnesses.
It is a fight to lasso our minds and bring them around to consistently feed on the Word of God! Then it is a fight to believe what we hear rather than what our natural eyes tell us! It is a fight to stand when it LOOKS like nothing at all is happening. It is a fight to rejoice at that same time! But every faith fight is one that we ALWAYS WIN, IF we refuse to quit! AMEN! So stir up your faith and your joy. Refuse to quit or to believe anything that is contrary to the promises of God's Word! AMEN! You CAN do this! You have God the Holy Spirit living IN you and you CAN do ALL things! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with a pretty old song called "FAITH":
Shalom in Him!
