Shalom,
Today I want to share again from Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional.
Getting
There
Come ye after Me. — Mark 1:17
Where
the Selective Affinity Dies and the Sanctified Abandon Lives
One of
the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We
make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus.
The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention
whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate
our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one
thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to
yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always
succeed. The one mark of a saint is the moral originality which springs from
abandonment to Jesus Christ. In the life of a saint there is this amazing
wellspring of original life all the time; the Spirit of God is a well of water
springing up, perennially fresh. The saint realizes that it is God Who
engineers circumstances, consequently there is no whine, but a reckless abandon
to Jesus. Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original
with other people as He is with you.
If you
abandon to Jesus, and come when He says “Come,” He will continue to say “Come”
through you; you will go out into life reproducing the echo of Christ’s “Come.” That
is the result in every soul who has abandoned and come to Jesus.
Have I
come to Jesus? Will I come now?
AMEN! Here is Brooke Ligertwood with "Bless God":
Shalom in Him!