Shalom,

Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is a very important message for those who want to continually draw closer in intimate fellowship with Almighty God!

Vision By Personal Purity

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. — Matthew 5:8

Purity is not innocence, it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual sympathy with God. We have to grow in purity. The life with God may be right and the inner purity remain unsullied, and yet every now and again the bloom on the outside may be sullied. God does not shield us from this possibility, because in this way we realize the necessity of maintaining the vision by personal purity. If the spiritual bloom of our life with God is getting impaired in the tiniest degree, we must leave off everything and get it put right. Remember that vision depends on character — the pure in heart see God.

God makes us pure by His sovereign grace, but we have something to look after, this bodily life by which we come in contact with other people and with other points of view; it is these that are apt to sully. Not only must the inner sanctuary be kept right with God, but the outer courts as well are to be brought into perfect accord with the purity God gives us by His grace. The spiritual understanding is blurred immediately the outer court is sullied. If we are going to retain personal contact with the Lord Jesus Christ, it will mean there are some things we must scorn to do or to think, some legitimate things we must scorn to touch.

A practical way of keeping personal purity unsullied in relation to other people is to say to yourself — That man, that woman, perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend, that relative, perfect in Christ Jesus!

Realize that though our born again spirits are PERFECT, in the image of Almighty God, we stilll have a flesh nature that must be controlled by our soul, which consists of our mind, emotions and will. As we continually renew our mind with the Word of God and spend time in fellowship with Him by Holy Spirit in us, we will become more and more like Him! We will NOT be perfect until we are with Him! 1 John 3:2-3 tells us this:

2 Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [as God’s children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is. 3 And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless).

So, maintian your fellowship with HIm and get to know HIM more every day! As you do this, and continue to share His TRUTH, you will become more and  more like JESUS and you will BE the LIGHT in your world! Here is Hillsong with "Children of the Light":

Shalom in Him!