I REALLY love today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers!
His!
Thine they were, and Thou gavest them Me. — John 17:6
The missionary is one in whom the Holy Ghost has wrought
this realization — “Ye are not your own.” To say “I am not my own,” is to have
reached a great point in spiritual nobility. The true nature of the life in the
actual whirl is the deliberate giving up of myself to another in sovereign
preference, and that other is Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit expounds the nature
of Jesus to me in order to make me one with my Lord, not that I might go off as
a showroom exhibit. Our Lord never sent any of the disciples out on the ground
of what He had done for them. It was not until after the Resurrection, when the
disciples had perceived by the power of the Holy Spirit Whom He was, that Jesus
said “Go.”
“If any man come to me and hate not…, he cannot be My
disciple,” not — he cannot be good and upright, but — he cannot be one over
whom Jesus writes the word “Mine.” Any one of the relationships Our Lord
mentions may be a competitive relationship. I may prefer to belong to my
mother, or to my wife, or to myself; then says Jesus, you cannot be My
disciple. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I
cannot be “His.”
Our Lord makes a disciple His own possession, He becomes
responsible for him. “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me.” The spirit that comes in
is not that of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect
delight to Him. The secret of the missionary is — I am His, and He is carrying
out His enterprises through me.
Be entirely His.
AMEN! The whole key to the New Testament and our New Covnenant with HIM is that we now BELONG to HIM! When we received JESUS as Lord and personal Saviour, the Spirit of Almighty God recreated our previously dead human spirit into the image of God! Our spirits are pure and sinless! But that is not all that we are! We ARE spirit beings, we HAVE souls (mind, emotions and will), and we live in a human body! We must continually renew our mind with the Word of God so that our soul can make quality, GOD decisions based on our knowledge of His Word! THAT is what we are seeing above! Make God's Word and your fellowship with HIM your #1 priority and you cannot fail! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "As I Am":
Shalom in Him!
