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Something More About His Ways

August 1st

'My Utmost for His Highest'

Oswald Chambers

Pg 214

He comes where He commands us to leave.
"When Jesus had made an end of commanding His disciples, He departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities." Matthew xi. 1.
If when god said 'Go,' you stayed, because
you were so concerned about your people at home,
you robbed them of the teaching and preaching
of Jesus Christ Himself. When you obeyed and
left all consequences to God, the Lord went into
your city to teach ; as long as you would not obey,
you were in the way. Watch where you begin to
debate and to put what you call duty in com-
petition with your Lord's commands. 'I know
God told me to go, but then my duty was here' ;
that means you do not believe that Jesus means
what He says.
HE TEACHES WHERE HE INSTRUCTS US NOT TO.
"Master, . . . let us make three tabernacles."
Are we playing the spiritual amateur providence
in other lives? Are we so noisy in our instruction
of others that God cannot get anywhere near them?
We have to keep our mouths shut and our spirits
alert. God wants to instruct us in regard to His
Son, He wants to turn our times of prayer into
mounts of transfiguration, and we will not let Him.
When we are certain of the way God is going to
work, he will never work in that way any more.
HE WORKS WHERE HE SENDS US TO WAIT.
"Tarry ye . . . until. ..." Wait on God and
He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks
because you cannot see an inch in front of you!
Are we detached enough from our own spiritual
hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit
with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are
told.
These are phases of His ways we rarely recognize.

This is a wonderful, wonderful timely word for my wife and I.

I hope you will be encouraged too!

because...

His Wrath is Satisfied...