Shalom,
One of my very favorite messages in Scripture is found in today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers!
What Is That To Thee?
Lord, what shall this
man do?…What is that to thee? Follow thou Me. — John 21:21-22
One of our severest
lessons comes from the stubborn refusal to see that we must not interfere in
other people’s lives. It takes a long time to realize the danger of being an
amateur providence, that is, interfering with God’s order for others. You see a
certain person suffering, and you say — “He shall not suffer, and I will see
that he does not.” You put your hand straight in front of God’s permissive will
to prevent it, and God says — “What is that to thee?” If there is stagnation
spiritually, never allow it to go on, but get into God’s presence and find out
the reason for it. Possibly you will find it is because you have been interfering
in the life of another; proposing things you had no right to propose; advising
when you had no right to advise. When you do have to give advice to another,
God will advise through you with the direct understanding of His Spirit; your
part is to be so rightly related to God that His discernment comes through you
all the time for the blessing of another soul.
Most of us live on
the borders of consciousness — consciously serving, consciously devoted to God.
All this is immature, it is not the real life yet. The mature stage is the life
of a child which is never conscious; we become so abandoned to God that the
consciousness of being used never enters in. When we are consciously being used
as broken bread and poured-out wine, there is another stage to be reached,
where all consciousness of ourselves and of what God is doing through us is
eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint; a saint is consciously
dependent on God.
I LOVE that JESUS basically told him: NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS! Let's keep our focus daily on the WORD, the WILL and the SPIRIT of Almighty God for our own lives and be ever ready to help others! Here is Hillsong with "Desert Song":
Shalom in Him!
