Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers has a unique take on what we, as born again believers, should be focusing on! Unique, and TRUE!
Our Lord’s Surprise Visits
Be ye therefore ready also.
— Luke 12:40
The great need for the Christian
worker is to be ready to face Jesus Christ at any and every turn. This is not
easy, no matter what our experience is. The battle is not against sin or
difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we
are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn. That is the one great need,
not the facing our belief, or our creed, the question whether we are of any
use, but to face Him.
Jesus rarely comes where we
expect Him; He appears where we least expect Him, and always in the most
illogical connections. The only way a worker can keep true to God is by being
ready for the Lord’s surprise visits. It is not service that matters, but
intense spiritual reality, expecting Jesus Christ at every turn. This will give
our life the attitude of child-wonder which He wants it to have. If we are
going to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is,
using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
If you are looking off unto Jesus,
avoiding the call of the religious age you live in, and setting your heart on
what He wants, on thinking on His line, you will be called unpractical and
dreamy; but when He appears in the burden and the heat of the day, you will be
the only one who is ready. Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever
walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.
I SO love this! So much of the teaching that I received right after the new birth centered all around trying to be a 'good Christian'! That is NOT what JESUS called us to do! He called us to DO the works that HE did, and even greater! THIS Scripture should be OUR call to action:
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed [who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity], 19 To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord [the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound].
THIS is why we are here instead of already walking those wonderful golden streets of Heaven! We are HERE to show people that JESUS is the WAY to the Father and to be set free in every area! There IS a GOD, and His Name is JESUS! AMEN! Let's get busy with our Father's business and NOT the BUSYness of religion! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "WONDER":
Shalom in Him!
