Shalom,
Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional by Oswald Chambers has another very important instruction for us!
Take The Initiative
Add to your faith virtue
["Furnish your faith with resolution," moffatt]…. — 2 Peter 1:5
“Add” means there is something we
have to do. We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and
that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify
ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not
give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that
ourselves, we have to work out the salvation God has worked in. “Add” means to
get into the habit of doing things, and in the initial stages it is difficult.
To take the initiative is to make a beginning, to instruct yourself in the way
you have to go.
Beware of the tendency of asking the
way when you know it perfectly well. Take the initiative, stop hesitating, and
take the first step. Be resolute when God speaks, act in faith immediately on
what He says, and never revise your decisions. If you hesitate when God tells
you to do a thing, you endanger your standing in grace. Take the initiative,
take it yourself, take the step with your will now, make it impossible to go
back. Burn your bridges behind you — “I will write that letter”;
“I will pay that debt.” Make the thing inevitable.
We have to get into the habit of
hearkening to God about everything, to form the habit of finding out what God
says. If when a crisis comes, we instinctively turn to God, we know that the
habit has been formed. We have to take the initiative where we are, not
where we are not.
AMEN! Let's get to it! Here is Hillsong with "Desert Song":
Shalom in Him!
