By Oswald Chambers
05/23/2018
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…do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Matthew 6:25
Jesus summed up commonsense carefulness in the life of a disciple as unbelief.
If we have received the Spirit of God, He will squeeze right through
our lives, as if to ask, “Now where do I come into this relationship,
this vacation you have planned, or these new books you want to read?”
And He always presses the point until we learn to make Him our first
consideration. Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.
“…do
not worry about your life….” Don’t take the pressure of your provision
upon yourself. It is not only wrong to worry, it is unbelief; worrying
means we do not believe that God can look after the practical details of
our lives, and it is never anything but those details that worry us.
Have you ever noticed what Jesus said would choke the Word He puts in
us? Is it the devil? No— “the cares of this world” (Matthew 13:22).
It is always our little worries. We say, “I will not trust when I
cannot see”— and that is where unbelief begins. The only cure for
unbelief is obedience to the Spirit.
The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon. From My Utmost for His Highest Updated Edition
Bible in One Year: 1 Chronicles 19-21; John 8:1-27
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
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.”
from My Utmost for His Highest, April 23, 773 L
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