Today's "My Utmost For His Higest" by Oswald Chambers is a great reminder to each of us!
The Exclusiveness Of Christ
Come unto Me. — Matthew 11:28
Is it not humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus!
Think of the things we will not come to Jesus Christ about. If you want to know
how real you are, test yourself by these words — “Come unto Me.” In every
degree in which you are not real, you will dispute rather than come, you will
quibble rather than come, you will go through sorrow rather than come; you will
do anything rather than come the last lap of unutterable foolishness — “Just as
I am.” As long as you have the tiniest bit of spiritual impertinence, it will
always reveal itself in the fact that you are expecting God to tell you to do a
big thing, and all He is telling you to do is to “come.”
“Come unto Me.” When you hear those words you will know that
something must happen in you before you can come. The Holy Spirit will show you
what you have to do, anything at all that will put the axe at the root of the
thing which is preventing you from getting through. You will never get further
until you are willing to do that one thing. The Holy Spirit will locate the one
impregnable thing in you, but He cannot budge it unless you are willing to let
Him.
How often have you come to God with your requests and gone
away with the feeling — “Oh, well, I have done it this time!” And yet you go
away with nothing, whilst all the time God has stood with outstretched hands
not only to take you, but for you to take Him. Think of the invincible, unconquerable,
unwearying patience of Jesus — “Come unto Me.”
AMEN! "JUST AS YOU ARE" means JUST THAT! JESUS is not looking for us to BECOME perfect by our own efforts. HE has already MADE US PERFECT - IN HIM! We can add nothing TO what JESUS has done and we can take noothing away from His wonderful, powerful work of REDEMPTION! What does HE say, and what should WE BE SAYING?"ONLY BELIEVE" (Mark 5:36)!
AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "I Believe":
Shalom in Him!
