Shalom,
Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional by Oswald Chambers is is a revelation of the heart of our father God!
The Habit Of
Wealth
Partakers of
the divine nature. — 2 Peter 1:4
We are made
partakers of the Divine nature through the promises; then we have to
“manipulate” the Divine nature in our human nature by habits, and the first
habit to form is the habit of realising the provision God has made. “Oh, I
can’t afford it,” we say — one of the worst lies is tucked up in that phrase.
It is ungovernably bad taste to talk about money in the natural domain, and so
it is spiritually, and yet we talk as if our Heavenly Father had cut us off
with a shilling! We think it a sign of real modesty to say at the end of a day
— “Oh, well, I have just got through, but it has been a severe tussle.” And all
the Almighty God is ours in the Lord Jesus! And He will tax the last grain of
sand and the remotest star to bless us if we will obey Him. What does it matter
if external circumstances are hard? Why should they not be! If we give way to
self-pity and indulge in the luxury of misery, we banish God’s riches from our
own lives and hinder others from entering into His provision. No sin is worse
than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest
upon the throne. It opens our mouths to spit out murmurings and our lives
become craving spiritual sponges, there is nothing lovely or generous about
them.
When God is
beginning to be satisfied with us, He will impoverish everything in the nature
of fictitious wealth, until we learn that all our fresh springs are in Him
(pbv).* If the majesty and grace and power of God are not being manifested in
us (not to our consciousness), God holds us responsible. “God is able to make
all grace abound,” then learn to lavish the grace of God on others. Be stamped
with God’s nature, and His blessing will come through you all the time.
AMEN! Let's REALLY commit to doing things GOD'S way! There IS no failure in that! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Need Your Love":
Shalom in Him!
