Good Morning Dear One,
Today I am giving myself permission to know (and therefore make a decision from within this knowing) the reality of sharing more about the pesky ol’ ‘lie of lack’ is gonna take time. I am letting myself be part of a new process of writing extra on the side specifically about it with the hope of well… nothing! I’d guess it will be words I share but at a minimum I know this writing process specifically is another opportunity to learn. “Awesome, right?” and if you hang around here with me, maybe you’ll learn some more too :-)
For today I am sharing a heavy-hitter post from my brother-from-a-different-mother Oswald Chambers. I call it a post for encouragement to myself, heehee. I have had resistance towards blogging because I do not read any therefore what could I possibly know about it. The actual resistance I have isn’t to blogs themselves instead it is to the computer/technology/internet. Technology as referenced hasn’t been a source of life to me but I recognize it is part of life, so maybe that’s part of why I am here, just to learn more actual tools. Anyway…back to my man OC. Here is today’s (November 13) entry from My Utmost for His Highest and it’s not for the faint of heart, just sayin’.
*For you to come to know a little more Karaese, I am going to add “opportunity” next to every written “command” (ie GET vs MUST). Jesus never forces His ways upon us, instead it is a choice and opportunity for us to come to know Him better if we choose to stay followers of Him and His ways.
FAITH and EXPERIENCE
“The Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galations 2:20
We have (get) to battle through our moods into absolute devotion to the Lord Jesus, to get out of the hole-and-corner business of our experience into abandoned devotion to Him. Think Who the New Testament says that Jesus Christ is, and then think of the despicable meanness of the miserable faith we (often) have — I haven’t had this and that experience! Think (really think) what faith in Jesus claims — that He can present us faultless before the throne of God, unutterably pure, absolutely rectified and profoundly justified. Stand in implicit adoring faith in Him, He is made unto us “wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” (For real) How can we talk of making a sacrifice for the Son of God! Our salvation is from hell and perdition, and then we talk about making sacrifices!
We have (get) to get out into faith in Jesus continually; not a prayer meeting Jesus Christ, nor a book Jesus Christ, but the New Testament Jesus Christ, Who is God Incarnate, and Who ought to strike us to His feet as dead. Our faith must (gets to) be in the One from Whom our experience springs. Jesus Christ wants our absolute abandon of devotion to Himself. We never can experience Jesus Christ, nor ever hold Him within the compass of our own hearts, but our faith must (gets to) be built in strong emphatic confidence in Him.
It is along this line that we see the rugged impatience of the Holy Ghost against unbelief. All our fears are wicked, and we fear because we will (often do) not nourish ourselves in our faith. How can anyone who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or fear? It ought to be an absolute paean of perfectly irrepressible, triumphant belief.
Aye aye aye. I relate to this. I do not choose to camp on a teaching, and by camp I mean dwell on the words of man. I do trust the Spirit within me to let a man/woman’s teaching be a gift to learn from, and indeed it has so ultimately I hope the same for you.
Jesus’ words are life to me. Through Christ’s cherished words, Scripture as a whole, and mans teaching, Jesus, over and over, has shown me and asked me for this: complete abandonment to Him and His ways. It seems O.C. was asked the same thing and he appeared to write, like me, out of this same peace-saturated struggle to live our decision out.
I hope you are encouraged and golly let’s do it, remember He is worth it <3