by Oswald Chambers
ISAIAH
50: 4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I
should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he
wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
To be an Uncommon Believer….
Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning…. Be the Voice of the LORD
"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15
“The
majority of present day preachers understand only the blessings that
come to us from the Cross, they are apt to be devoted to certain
doctrines which flow from the Cross. Paul preached one thing only: the
crucified Christ, “Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.””
If
you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If
you do not, someone will be the poorer all the days of his life.
Struggle to re-express some truth of God to yourself, and God will use
that expression to someone else. Go through the winepress of God where the grapes are crushed.
You must struggle to get expression experimentally, then there will
come a time when that expression will become the very wine of
strengthening to someone else; but if you say lazily - "I am not going to struggle to express this thing for myself, I will borrow what I say,"
the expression will not only be of no use to you, but of no use to
anyone. Try to state to yourself what you feel implicitly to be God's
truth, and you give God a chance to pass it on to someone else through
you.
Always make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not ours until we make it ours by suffering.
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something
you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth
that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.