Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is is very important for every born aain beleiver to know!
The Big Compelling Of God
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. — Luke 18:31
Jerusalem stands in the life of Our Lord as the place where
He reached the climax of His Father’s will. “I seek not Mine own will, but the
will of the Father which hath sent Me.” That was the one dominating interest
all through our Lord’s life, and the things He met with on the way, joy or
sorrow, success or failure, never deterred Him from His purpose. “He
steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.”
The great thing to remember is that we go up to Jerusalem to
fulfil God’s purpose, not our own. Naturally, our ambitions are our own; in the
Christian life we have no aim of our own. There is so much said to-day about
our decisions for Christ, our determination to be Christians, our decisions for
this and that, but in the New Testament it is the aspect of God’s compelling
that is brought out. “Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you.” We are not
taken up into conscious agreement with God’s purpose, we are taken up into
God’s purpose without any consciousness at all. We have no conception of what
God is aiming at, and as we go on it gets more and more vague. God’s aim looks
like missing the mark because we are too short-sighted to see what He is aiming
at. At the beginning of the Christian life we have our own ideas as to what
God’s purpose is — “I am meant to go here or there”; “God has called me to do
this special work”; and we go and do the thing, and still the big compelling of
God remains. The work we do is of no account, it is so much scaffolding
compared with the big compelling of God. “He took unto Him the twelve,” He
takes us all the time. There is more than we have got at as yet.
It is GOD's will that is the most important aspect of our relationship and fellowship with HIM! HE ALONE knows the whole picture of what His plans and purposes are for all of mankind! He has made it clear that, as muchas the choice is HIS, He wants us well, prosperous and successful! BUT, it is OUR obedience to HIS directions and instructions that determine just how much BLESSING we walk in! Choose YOU this day! And choose WELL! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Echoes (Til We Reach The Other Side":
VERSE 1:
We will sing
We will dance
Till the earth echoes the heavens
Sing His praise
Till we see the other side
VERSE 2:
‘Cause we belong to the light
So when the night is at its darkest
Just hold on for the dawn will soon arrive
CHORUS 1:
Can you feel the winds are changing
There’s a new day on the rise
And the atmosphere is breaking
As the new world comes to life
We will sing
We will dance
Till the earth echoes the heavens
Sing His praise
Till we see the other side
TAG:
I’ve got a feeling
The darkness won’t last very longCHORUS 2:
Let a sleeping world awaken
There’s a new day on the rise
And the enemy is shaking
As the graveyards spring to life
We will sing
We will dance
Till the earth echoes the heavens
Sing His praise
Till we see the other side
