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Friday, July 07, 2017
Sunday, April 23, 2017
The Grace To BE Where You Are Planted And To Stay Focused On Jesus!
April 23rd
The worship of the work
Labourers together with God. 1 Cor. 3:9.
Beware of any work for God which enables you to evade concentration on Him. A great many Christian workers worship their work. The one concern of a worker should be concentration on God, and this will mean that all the other margins of life, mental, moral and spiritual, are free with the freedom of a child—a worshipping child, not a wayward child. A worker without this solemn, dominant note of concentration on God is apt to get his work on his neck; there is no margin of body, mind or spirit free, consequently he becomes spent out and crushed. There is no freedom, no delight in life; nerves, mind and heart are so crushingly burdened that God’s blessing cannot rest. But the other side is just as true—when once the concentration is on God, all the margins of life are free and under the dominance of God alone. There is no responsibility on you for the work; the only responsibility you have is to keep in living, constant touch with God, and to see that you allow nothing to hinder your co-operation with Him. The freedom after sanctification is the freedom of a child, the things that used to keep the life pinned down are gone. But be careful to remember that you are freed for one thing only—to be absolutely devoted to your co-Worker.
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”
--Oswald Chambers My Utmost For His Highest
The worship of the work
Labourers together with God. 1 Cor. 3:9.
Beware of any work for God which enables you to evade concentration on Him. A great many Christian workers worship their work. The one concern of a worker should be concentration on God, and this will mean that all the other margins of life, mental, moral and spiritual, are free with the freedom of a child—a worshipping child, not a wayward child. A worker without this solemn, dominant note of concentration on God is apt to get his work on his neck; there is no margin of body, mind or spirit free, consequently he becomes spent out and crushed. There is no freedom, no delight in life; nerves, mind and heart are so crushingly burdened that God’s blessing cannot rest. But the other side is just as true—when once the concentration is on God, all the margins of life are free and under the dominance of God alone. There is no responsibility on you for the work; the only responsibility you have is to keep in living, constant touch with God, and to see that you allow nothing to hinder your co-operation with Him. The freedom after sanctification is the freedom of a child, the things that used to keep the life pinned down are gone. But be careful to remember that you are freed for one thing only—to be absolutely devoted to your co-Worker.
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”
--Oswald Chambers My Utmost For His Highest
Monday, October 03, 2016
On Ephesians 1.22,23: Jesus' Sovereignty
DORET: "By the church he means the whole community of the faithful. This he calls the body of Christ and the fullness of the Father. This body he has filled with all gifts. He lives in it and goes about in it,* as the voice of prophecy says. But this will be more strictly so in the future life....In the present life God is in all, since his nature is uncircumscribed; but he is not all in all,* since some are impious and some lawless. Yet he lives in those who fear him and who put hope in his mercy. In the next life at any rate, when mortality has ceased and immortality is conferred and sin has no place any longer, he will be all in all."
* Lev 26.11,12
* 1 Cor 15:28
from 'Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture', Vol 8.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Wisdom in Jesus
"I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God’s great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we’ve been shown the mystery! I’m telling you this because I don’t want anyone leading you off on some wild-goose chase, after other so-called mysteries, or “the Secret.”"
Eugene Peterson. The Message (Col 2:2–4).
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Some Thoughts on Psalm 29
Psalm 29
“The power of his kingdom: He sits upon the flood. As he has founded the earth, so he has founded
his own throne, upon the floods, Ps. 24:2. The ebbings and flowings of this
lower world, and the agitations and revolutions of the affairs in it, give not
the least shake to the repose nor to the counsels of the Eternal Mind. The
opposition of his enemies is compared to the flood (Ps. 93:3, 4); but the Lord
sits upon it; he crushes it, conquers it, and completes his own purposes in
despite of all the devices that are in men’s hearts.[1]
(3.) In the kingdom of grace. Here his glory shines most
brightly, [1.] In the adorations he receives from the subjects of that kingdom
(v. 9). In his temple, where people
attend his discoveries of himself and his mind and attend him with their
praises, every one speaks of his glory.
In the world every man sees it, or at least may
behold it afar off (Job 36:25); but it is only in the temple, in the
church, that it is spoken of to his honour. All
his works do praise him (that is, they minister matter for praise), but his
saints only do bless him, and speak of his glory of his works, Ps. 145:10. [2.]
In the favours he bestows upon the subjects of that kingdom, v. 11. First, He will qualify them for his
service: He will give strength to his
people, to fortify them against every evil work and to furnish them for
every good work; out of weakness they shall be made strong; nay, he will
perfect strength in weakness. Secondly,
He will encourage them in his service: He
will bless his people with peace. Peace is a blessing of inestimable value,
which God designs for all his people. The work
of righteousness is peace (great peace have those that love thy law); but
much more the crown of righteousness: the end of righteousness is peace; it is
endless peace. When the thunder of God’s wrath shall make sinners tremble the
saints shall lift up their heads with joy.[2]
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
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