Today's message from Oswald Chambers' devotional "My Utmost For His Highest" is so simple, yet so very important for our continual growth in the things of God!
The Realm Of The Real
In your patience possess ye your souls. — Luke 21:19
When a man is born again, there is not the same robustness
in his thinking or reasoning for a time as formerly. We have to make an
expression of the new life, to form the mind of Christ. “Acquire your soul with
patience” (rv). Many of us prefer to stay at the threshold of the Christian
life instead of going on to construct a soul in accordance with the new life
God has put within. We fail because we are ignorant of the way we are made, we
put things down to the devil instead of our own undisciplined natures. Think
what we can be when we are roused!
There are certain things we must not pray about — moods, for
instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. A mood nearly always
has its seat in the physical condition, not in the moral. It is a continual
effort not to listen to the moods which arise from a physical condition; never
submit to them for a second. We have to take ourselves by the scruff of the
neck and shake ourselves, and we will find that we can do what we said we could
not. The curse with most of us is that we won’t. The Christian life
is one of incarnate spiritual pluck.
I LOVE the last statement! It is a CHOICE to either do things God's Way, or not! We have everything we need in order to GROW UP! We have the indwelling presence of the Spirit of God, abundant access to the WORD of God, ministers with insight and knowledge to share, and other born again believers to meditate the Word with. We are, of all people, MOST BLESSED! Let's make sure that WE are continually pressing on to BE the best that WE can be! AMEN! Here are Hillsong Kids with "Made In Your Image":Shalom in Him!
