Oswald Chambers- My Utmost for His Highest (July 23rd)
Thought: Our soul's history with God is frequently the history of the "passing of the hero." Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged. Take it personally: In the year that the one who stood to me for all that God was, died - I gave tip everything? I became ill? I got disheartened? or - I saw the Lord? My vision of God depends upon the state of my character. Character determines revelation. Before I can say "I saw also the Lord," there must be something corresponding to God in my character. Until I am born again and begin to see the Kingdom of God, I see along the line of my prejudices only; I need the surgical operation of external events and an internal purification. It must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever. "In all the world there is none but thee, my God, there is none but thee." Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.
I like Os because he tells is like it is. "Take it personally." "It must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else..." "Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision." That's good stuff.
I don't have much to say, hence the silence on here lately. All I know is that we truly do have to keep paying the price, continually lose all that is dear to us, have our character refined over and over and over again, fall flat on our faces that we might give up using our own strength... and cling to the vision God has given us, that has hope in the reality of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and is secured in the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. We must know in a deeper, more profound way that, "In all the world there is none but Thee, my God, there is none but Thee."
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