Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is one of the mostpowerfu lmessages that you will ever hear and the mostimportant for you to know!
God’s Total Surrender to Us
For od so loved the world that He gave… —John 3:16
Salvation does not mean merely deliverance from sin or the
experience of personal holiness. The salvation which comes from God means being
completely delivered from myself, and being placed into perfect union with Him.
When I think of my salvation experience, I think of being delivered from sin
and gaining personal holiness. But salvation is so much more! It means that the
Spirit of God has brought me into intimate contact with the true Person of God
Himself. And as I am caught up into total surrender to God, I become thrilled
with something infinitely greater than myself.
To say that we are called to preach holiness or
sanctification is to miss the main point. We are called to proclaim Jesus
Christ (see 1 Corinthians 2:2). The fact that He saves from sin and makes
us holy is actually part of the effect of His wonderful and total surrender to
us.
If we are truly surrendered, we will never be aware of our
own efforts to remain surrendered. Our entire life will be consumed with the
One to whom we surrender. Beware of talking about surrender if you know nothing
about it. In fact, you will never know anything about it until you understand
that John 3:16 means that God completely and absolutely gave Himself
to us. In our surrender, we must give ourselves to God in the same way He gave
Himself for us— totally, unconditionally, and without reservation. The
consequences and circumstances resulting from our surrender will never even
enter our mind, because our life will be totally consumed with Him.
AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "God So Loved":Shalom in Him!
