Shalom,
I really like the message in today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald chambers.
The Light
That Fails
We all with
open face beholding…the glory of the Lord. — 2 Corinthians 3:18
A servant of
God must stand so much alone that he never knows he is alone. In the first
phases of Christian life disheartenments come, people who used to be lights
flicker out, and those who used to stand with us pass away. We have to get so
used to it that we never know we are standing alone. “All men forsook
me:…notwithstanding the Lord stood with me” (2 Timothy 4:16-17). We must build our
faith, not on the fading light, but on the light that never fails. When “big”
men go we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go; the one thing that
remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
Allow
nothing to keep you from looking God sternly in the face about yourself and
about your doctrine, and every time you preach see that you look God in the
face about things first, then the glory will remain all through. A Christian
worker is one who perpetually looks in the face of God and then goes forth to
talk to people. The characteristic of the ministry of Christ is that of
unconscious glory that abides. “Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone
while he talked with Him.”
We are never
called on to parade our doubts or to express the hidden ecstasies of our life
with God. The secret of the worker’s life is that he keeps in tune with God all
the time.
And THIS is the 'secret' of every born again, Spirit filled believer who seeks the presence of God and the Wisdom of God on a consistent and insistent basis! Refuse to settle for anything less than all that GOD has provided for you in our NEW and BETTER COVENANT! HE is holding NOTHING back from us when WE go after HIM with our whole heart! LET'S GET TO IT! Here is Hillsong with "Whole Heart":
Shalom in Him!