Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is EXCELLENT!
Don’t Calculate Without God
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him;
and He shall bring it to pass. — Psalm 37:5
Don’t calculate without God.
God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated
on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not
chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He
has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the
possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our
calculations.
In our religion (Faith) it is customary to put God first, but we are
apt to think it is an impertinence to put Him first in the practical issues of
our lives. If we imagine we have to put on our Sunday moods before we come near
to God, we will never come near Him. We must come as we are.
Don’t calculate with the evil in view.
Does God really mean us to take no account of the evil? “Love…taketh no account
of the evil” (rv). Love is not ignorant of the existence of the evil, but it
does not take it in as a calculating factor. Apart from God, we do reckon with
evil; we calculate with it in view and work all our reasonings from that
standpoint.
Don’t calculate with the rainy day in view.
You cannot lay up for a rainy day if you are trusting Jesus Christ. Jesus said
— “Let not your heart be troubled.” God will not keep your heart from being
troubled. It is a command — “Let not.…” Haul yourself up a hundred
and one times a day in order to do it, until you get into the habit of putting
God first and calculating with Him in view.
AMEN! Our WONDERFUL God has already provided for our victory in every area of life! FIND out what HE would have you to do, then DO IT with everything that is within you! God honors those who trust in HIM! AMEN! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "WONDER":
Shalom in Him!
