06/15/2018
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Also…add to your faith… 2 Peter 1:5
In the matter of drudgery.
Peter said in this passage that we have become “partakers of the divine
nature” and that we should now be “giving all diligence,” concentrating
on forming godly habits (2 Peter 1:4-5).
We are to “add” to our lives all that character means. No one is born
either naturally or supernaturally with character; it must be developed.
Nor are we born with habits— we have to form godly habits on the basis
of the new life God has placed within us. We are not meant to be seen as
God’s perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday
essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace. Drudgery
is the test of genuine character. The greatest hindrance in our
spiritual life is that we will only look for big things to do. Yet,
“Jesus…took a towel and…began to wash the disciples’ feet…” (John 13:3-5).
We
all have those times when there are no flashes of light and no apparent
thrill to life, where we experience nothing but the daily routine with
its common everyday tasks. The routine of life is actually God’s way of
saving us between our times of great inspiration which come from Him.
Don’t always expect God to give you His thrilling moments, but learn to
live in those common times of the drudgery of life by the power of God.
It
is difficult for us to do the “adding” that Peter mentioned here. We
say we do not expect God to take us to heaven on flowery beds of ease,
and yet we act as if we do! I must realize that my obedience even in the
smallest detail of life has all of the omnipotent power of the grace of
God behind it. If I will do my duty, not for duty’s sake but because I
believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at the very point of
my obedience all of the magnificent grace of God is mine through the
glorious atonement by the Cross of Christ. From My Utmost for His Highest Updated Edition
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WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The
measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private
profound communion we have with Him.… We have to pitch our tents where
we shall always have quiet times with God, however noisy our times with
the world may be.
from My Utmost for His Highest, January 6, 736 R
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