I REALLY love today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers! It puts the responsibility for God's people walking in His promises right where it belongs!
“My Rainbow in the Cloud”
I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign
of the covenant between Me and the earth. —Genesis 9:13
It is the will of God that human beings should get into a
right-standing relationship with Him, and His covenants are designed for this
purpose. Why doesn’t God save me? He has accomplished and provided for my
salvation, but I have not yet entered into a relationship with Him. Why doesn’t
God do everything we ask? He has done it. The point is— will I step into that
covenant relationship? All the great blessings of God are finished and
complete, but they are not mine until I enter into a relationship with Him on
the basis of His covenant.
Waiting for God to act is fleshly unbelief. It means that I
have no faith in Him. I wait for Him to do something in me so I may trust in
that. But God won’t do it, because that is not the basis of the God-and-man
relationship. Man must go beyond the physical body and feelings in his covenant
with God, just as God goes beyond Himself in reaching out with His covenant to
man. It is a question of faith in God— a very rare thing. We only have faith in
our feelings. I don’t believe God until He puts something tangible in my hand,
so that I know I have it. Then I say, “Now I believe.” There is no faith
exhibited in that. God says, “Look to Me, and be saved…” (Isaiah 45:22).
When I have really transacted business with God on the basis
of His covenant, letting everything else go, there is no sense of personal
achievement— no human ingredient in it at all. Instead, there is a complete
overwhelming sense of being brought into union with God, and my life is
transformed and radiates peace and joy.
AMEN! The only change that I would make, is that developing a 'relationship' with God happens INSTANTLY at the New Birth! We are MADE New Creations, members of God's family and heirs of God! THAT is 'relationship' and we have a new one! What he is referring to here is not relationship, but continuing in FELLOWSHIP with Him! We can be born again, and living under the New (and better) Covenant, but if we are not in intimate fellowship with JESUS, then we will never be in position to actaully walk in the benefits of this wonderful New Covenant! SO, if you have a relationship with JESUS in the New Birth, then continually develop your FELLOWSHIP with Him so that you can produce the results that He is looking for in YOU! AMEN!Here is Hillsong with "No Reason To Hide":Shalom in Him!
