Shalom,

Today I want to share again from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. Because his writings were from another time, the language and phraseology is sometimes a little harder to understand. That means that I have to spend momre time meditating on just what he is saying. I LOVE that! Anytime that we spend really thinking about what we are reading or hearing, knowledge comes and Wisdom with it! See what YOU receive from this!

Obedience

His servants ye are to whom ye obey. — Romans 6:16

The first thing to do in examining the power that dominates me is to take hold of the unwelcome fact that I am responsible for being thus dominated. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because at a point away back I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because I have yielded myself to Him.

Yield in childhood to selfishness, and you will find it the most enchaining tyranny on earth. There is no power in the human soul of itself to break the bondage of a disposition formed by yielding. Yield for one second to anything in the nature of lust (remember what lust is: “I must have it at once,” whether it be the lust of the flesh or the lust of the mind), once yield and though you may hate yourself for having yielded, you are a bond-slave to that thing. There is no release in human power at all, but only in the Redemption. You must yield yourself in utter humiliation to the only One Who can break the dominating power viz., the Lord Jesus Christ. “He hath anointed me…to preach deliverance to all captives.”

You find this out in the most ridiculously small ways – “Oh, I can give that habit up when I like.” You cannot, you will find that the habit absolutely dominates you because you yielded to it willingly. It is easy to sing – “He will break every fetter,” and at the same time be living a life of obvious slavery to yourself. Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

AMEN! Ultimately WE decide who we give our allegiance to! When I say "I choose Jesus!", then I have the responsibility to find out what HE desires of me! Obedience to His Word and His Spirit brings me to a place of being pleasing AND useful to Him! It does not change His LOVE for me, which NEVER changes, but it DOES increase my usefulness to Him! AND increases my future rewards! I LIKE those choices! I hope that you do, too! Here is Hillsong with "So Will I":

Shalom in Him!