Shalom,
Today I want to share again from Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest":
Casting down imaginations, and every
high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. — 2 Corinthians 10:5
Determinedly Demolish Some Things.
Deliverance from sin is not
deliverance from human nature. There are things in human nature, such as
prejudices, which the saint has to destroy by neglect; and other things which
have to be destroyed by violence, i.e., by the Divine strength imparted by
God’s Spirit. There are some things over which we are not to fight, but to
stand still in and see the salvation of God; but every theory or conception
which erects itself as a rampart against the knowledge of God is to be determinedly
demolished by drawing on God’s power, not by fleshly endeavour or compromise (2
Corinthians 10:4).
It is only when God has altered our
disposition and we have entered into the experience of sanctification that the
fight begins. The warfare is not against sin; we can never fight against sin:
Jesus Christ deals with sin in Redemption. The conflict is along the line of
turning our natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily,
nor does God intend it to be done easily. It is done only by a series of moral
choices. God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy
in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy
character by a series of moral choices. These choices are continually in antagonism
to the entrenchments of our natural life, the things which erect themselves as
ramparts against the knowledge of God. We can either go back and make ourselves
of no account in the Kingdom of God, or we can determinedly demolish these
things and let Jesus bring another son to glory.
AMEN! I PREFER to be continually changed, taught, corrected and directed in ALL of the WAYS of THE LORD that WE are respoonsible to walk in ! Here is Here is Brandon Lake with "Gratitude":
Shalom in Him!