by Oswald Chambers
To be an Uncommon Believer….
Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….
Be the Voice of the LORD
If you only take your own ideas, you will never know the truth. The whole truth is the only truth, and the whole truth is Jesus Christ—“I am . . . the Truth.” Any bit of truth is an error if taken alone.
"Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: . . Let not your heart be troubled." John 14:27
Whenever a thing becomes difficult in
personal experience, we are in danger of blaming God, but it is we who
are in the wrong, not God, there is some perversity somewhere that we
will not let go.
Immediately we do, everything becomes as clear as daylight. As long as we try to serve two ends, ourselves and God, there is perplexity. The attitude must be one of complete reliance on God.
When once we get there, there is nothing easier than living the saintly
life; difficulty comes in when we want to usurp the authority of the
Holy Spirit for our own ends.
Whenever you obey God, His seal is always
that of peace, the witness of an unfathomable peace, which is not
natural, but the peace of Jesus. Whenever peace does not come, tarry
till it does or find out the reason why it does not. If you are acting
on an impulse, or from a sense of the heroic, the peace of Jesus will
not witness; there is no simplicity or confidence in God, because the
spirit of simplicity is born of the Holy Ghost, not of your decisions.
Every decision brings a reaction of simplicity.
My questions come whenever I cease to obey. When
I have obeyed God, the problems never come between me and God, they
come as probes to keep the mind going on with amazement at the
revelation of God. Any problem
that comes between God and myself springs out of disobedience; any
problem, and there are many, that is alongside me while I obey God,
increases my ecstatic delight, because I know that my Father knows, and I
am going to watch and see how He unravels this thing.