Happy and very Blessed Thanksgiving to each of you and your families! I am spending this day with mine! Be GRATEFUL! Be THANKFUL! Be BLESSED and a BLESSING! Today I want to share "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Cambers again. This is another that is so simple, yet powerful and needful!
Shallow and Profound
Whether you eat or drink, or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. —1 Corinthians 10:31
Beware of allowing yourself to
think that the shallow aspects of life are not ordained by God; they are
ordained by Him equally as much as the profound. We sometimes refuse to be
shallow, not out of our deep devotion to God but because we wish to impress
other people with the fact that we are not shallow. This is a sure sign of
spiritual pride. We must be careful, for this is how contempt for others is
produced in our lives. And it causes us to be a walking rebuke to other people
because they are more shallow than we are. Beware of posing as a profound
person— God became a baby.
To be shallow is not a sign of
being sinful, nor is shallowness an indication that there is no depth to your
life at all— the ocean has a shore. Even the shallow things of life, such as
eating and drinking, walking and talking, are ordained by God. These are all
things our Lord did. He did them as the Son of God, and He said, “A disciple is
not above his teacher…” (Matthew 10:24).
We are safeguarded by the shallow
things of life. We have to live the surface, commonsense life in a commonsense
way. Then when God gives us the deeper things, they are obviously separated
from the shallow concerns. Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God.
We are so nauseatingly serious, so desperately interested in our own character
and reputation, we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of
life.
Make a determination to take no
one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the
most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is
yourself.
I LOVE this! Over the years I have heard every excuse imaginable for people holding back from becoming a born again believer. Many of them have blamed what they deem as hypocrisy in believers. This will NOT be an excuse that will be heard when it comes time to face eternity! That being said, OUR REWARDS in Heaven and our pleasing the Father depend on what WE do in our thoughts and words and actions! Some people have been so rigidly (self) righteous in how they 'appear' to others, all in the name of how they perceive Christianity to look! JESUS really caused a stir among the religious leaders of His day when He did not meet their own personal expectations of what Messiah ought to look and act like! Their perceptions were jaded by years of rules and regulations added to the Word that God had given them until they no longer even knew the God of their Salvation! Not only did they not know or recognize their Messiah when He came, but they worked day and night to try and keep the people from hearing and believing. The message above is to those whose faith is not really REAL to them yet, because they continue to look at outward appearances as important. What the lost are looking for is someone who KNOWS their God! There IS a 'God-shaped' hole in the heart of every unbeliever, just waiting to be filled with the TRUE Saviour! The message? Make sure that you know the SAVIOUR,, and that you present HIM and not the rules and regulations of any denomination! Meditate on the Word of God and all of the verses that speak of who you are - IN HIM! When this becomes real to YOU, then you will be in position to present the Gospel in TRUTH! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "One Way":Shalom in Him!
