I really love today's "My Usmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers! We all have had those glorious times when we KNEW that we were in the presence of God and life felt SO GOOD! But maintaining that awareness of His presence requires our daily diligence during those times when everything good isn't always obvious! This lesson is very good for that!
Taking the Next Step
…in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses.
—2 Corinthians 6:4
When you have no vision from God, no enthusiasm left in your
life, and no one watching and encouraging you, it requires the grace of
Almighty God to take the next step in your devotion to Him, in the reading and
studying of His Word, in your family life, or in your duty to Him. It takes
much more of the grace of God, and a much greater awareness of drawing upon
Him, to take that next step, than it does to preach the gospel.
Every Christian must experience the essence of the
incarnation by bringing the next step down into flesh-and-blood reality and by
working it out with his hands. We lose interest and give up when we have no
vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our everyday
life with its trivial tasks. The thing that really testifies for God and for
the people of God in the long run is steady perseverance, even when the work
cannot be seen by others. And the only way to live an undefeated life is to
live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the risen
Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to discourage you. Never allow
yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant
for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1-17.
AMEN! I encourage you to keep this message somewhere where you can refer to it whenever things begin to seem either mudane or to hard! Back to the basics is ALWAYS the right place to start! Here is Hillsong with "Good Grace":Shalom in Him!
