Shalom,
I really enjoyed today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers!
The Habit Of
Enjoying The Disagreeable
That life
also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. — 2 Corinthians 4:11
We have to
form habits to express what God’s grace has done in us. It is not a question of
being saved from hell, but of being saved in order to manifest the life of the
Son of God in our mortal flesh, and it is the disagreeable things which make us
exhibit whether or not we are manifesting His life. Do I manifest the essential
sweetness of the Son of God, or the essential irritation of “myself” apart from
Him? The only thing that will enable me to enjoy the disagreeable is the keen
enthusiasm of letting the life of the Son of God manifest itself in me. No
matter how disagreeable a thing may be, say — “Lord, I am delighted to obey
Thee in this matter,” and instantly the Son of God will press to the front, and
there will be manifested in my human life that which glorifies Jesus.
There must
be no debate. The moment you obey the light, the Son of God presses through you
in that particular; but if you debate you grieve the Spirit of God. You must
keep yourself fit to let the life of the Son of God be manifested, and you
cannot keep yourself fit if you give way to self-pity. Our circumstances are
the means of manifesting how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure the
Son of God is. The thing that ought to make the heart beat is a new way of
manifesting the Son of God. It is one thing to choose the disagreeable, and
another thing to go into the disagreeable by God’s engineering. If God puts you
there, He is amply sufficient.
Keep your
soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let
the word of God be always living and active in you.
HALLELUJAH! This IS the answer to living a life on this earth that not only glorifies the God of the Bible, but also draws others to HIM! And THAT is our #1 calling! To REPRESENT Heaven right here on earth! Here is Hillsong with another older song called "No Reason To Hide":
Shalom in Him!
