I think that today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers contains a very simple, yet important message!
Authority And Independence
If ye love Me, ye will keep My
commandments. —John 14:15 (RV)
Our Lord never insists upon
obedience; He tells us very emphatically what we ought to do, but He never
takes means to make us do it. We have to obey Him out of a oneness of spirit.
That is why whenever Our Lord talked about discipleship, He prefaced it with an
IF — you do not need to unless you like. “If any man will be My disciple, let
him deny himself”; let him give up his right to himself to Me. Our Lord is not
talking of eternal positions, but of being of value to Himself in this order of
things, that is why He sounds so stern (cf. Luke 14:26). Never interpret these
words apart from the One who uttered them.
The Lord does not give me rules,
He makes His standard very clear, and if my relationship to Him is that of
love, I will do what He says without any hesitation. If I hesitate, it is
because I love some one else in competition with Him, viz., myself. Jesus
Christ will not help me to obey Him, I must obey Him; and when I do obey Him, I
fulfil my spiritual destiny. My personal life may be crowded with small petty
incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean*, but if I obey Jesus Christ in the
haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of
God, and when I stand face to face with God I shall discover that through my
obedience thousands were blessed. When once God’s Redemption comes to the point
of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the
Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed
of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.
*mean: as used here, something or
someone ordinary, common, low, or ignoble, rather than cruel or spiteful.
This is so simple! God has NOT given us a set of "Christian rules and regulations"! He has given us His TRUTH (His Word - John 17:17), and when we are DOERS of His Word, we will have the results and promises of that Word! AMEN! So let's just LOVE JESUS! LOVE His WORD! DO His WORD and LOVE people! THEY will see JESUS in us and will want HIM! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Look To The Son":Shalom in Him!
