Shalom,
Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is a great one!
What To Renounce
But have renounced the hidden things
of dishonesty. — 2 Corinthians 4:2
Have you “renounced the hidden things
of dishonesty” — the things that your sense of honour will not allow to come to
the light? You can easily hide them. Is there a thought in your heart about
anyone which you would not like to be dragged into the light? Renounce it as
soon as it springs up; renounce the whole thing until there is no hidden thing
of dishonesty or craftiness about you. Envy, jealousy, strife — these things
arise not necessarily from the disposition of sin, but from the make-up of your
body which was used for this kind of thing in days gone by (see Romans 6:19 and
1 Peter 4:1-2): Maintain a continual watchfulness so that nothing of which you
would be ashamed arises in your life.
“Not walking in craftiness” that
is, resorting to what will carry your point. This is a great snare. You know
that God will only let you work in one way, then be careful never to catch
people the other way; God’s blight will be upon you if you do. Others are doing
things which to you would be walking in craftiness, but it may not be so with
them; God has given you another standpoint. Never blunt the sense of your
Utmost for His Highest. For you to do a certain thing would mean the incoming
of craftiness for an end other than the highest, and the blunting of the motive
God has given you. Many have gone back because they are afraid of looking at
things from God’s stand-point. The great crisis comes spiritually when a man
has to emerge a bit farther on than the creed he has accepted.
AMEN! Have nothing to do with those who are NOT children of God yet except to minister to them! I LIKE that! Here is Hillsong with "Bright As The Sun":
Shalom in Him!