Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is another invaluable lesson!
The Way To Know
If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine.…
— John 7:17
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not
intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual
curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches,
he can only get it by obedience. If things are dark to me, then I may be sure
there is something I will not do. Intellectual darkness comes through
ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to
obey.
No man ever receives a word from God without instantly being
put to the test over it. We disobey and then wonder why we don’t go on
spiritually. “If when you come to the altar,” said Jesus, “there you remember
your brother hath ought against you…don’t say another word to Me, but first go
and put that thing right.” The teaching of Jesus hits us where we live. We
cannot stand as humbugs before Him for one second. He educates us down to the
scruple. The Spirit of God unearths the spirit of self-vindication; He makes us
sensitive to things we never thought of before.
When Jesus brings a thing home by His word, don’t shirk it.
If you do, you will become a religious humbug. Watch the things you shrug your
shoulders over, and you will know why you do not go on spiritually. First
go — at the risk of being thought fanatical you must obey what God tells
you.
AMEN! If you feel as though the Word of God is not alive and fresh to you anymore, then check the last thing that HE spoke to your heart to do, and DO IT! New revelation will not come until we have proven ourselves faithful and reliable over the revelation that we already have! Here is Hillsong with "No Reason To Hide":
We got nothing to lose,
We got no reason to hide,
We got the answer inside of us,
It’s time we took our disguises off
See Your glory revealed,
See Your name lifted high,
Because there is no one else for us,
Jesus you are the only one
Woah, You are alive and we are free,
You are everything, everything we need
There’s not a minute to waste
Not a second to lose
Coz there’s a city that waits for us
It’s time we took all the lamp shades off
Woah, love has spoken and we believe
You are everything, everything we need
Nothing compares to you
Nothing could ever separate us now
Your love is ours
Nothing can separate us
Nothing can come between us
Nothing can separate us nowween us
Nothing can separate us now
Shalom in Him!
