Shalom,

Today's "My Utmost For His  Highest" by Oswald Chambers is one that I have meditated on many times and am convinced that this is an extremely vital Truth that every born again believer must be aware of for their own lives! 

The Abandonment Of God

God so loved the world that He gave…. — John 3:16

Salvation is not merely deliverance from sin, nor the experience of personal holiness; the salvation of God is deliverance out of self entirely into union with Himself. My experiential knowledge of salvation will be along the line of deliverance from sin and of personal holiness; but salvation means that the Spirit of God has brought me into touch with God’s personality, and I am thrilled with something infinitely greater than myself, I am caught up into the abandonment of God.

To say that we are called to preach holiness or sanctification, is to get into a side eddy. We are called to proclaim Jesus Christ. The fact that He saves from sin and makes us holy is part of the effect of the wonderful abandonment of God.

Abandonment never produces the consciousness of its own effort, because the whole life is taken up with the One to Whom we abandon. Beware of talking about abandonment if you know nothing about it, and you will never know anything about it until you have realized that John 3:16 means that God gave Himself absolutely. In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculation. The consequence of abandonment never enters into our outlook because our life is taken up with Him.

AMEN! Let's not cheat ourselves out of ALL that JESUS gave His life for! There is SO MUCH MORE that is available to us in our intimate fellowship with HIM than we have dared to TRULY believe and walk in! Here is one of my favorite songs by Hillsong called "Every Breath":

Shalom in Him!