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My Utmost for His Highest 2 / The Baffling Call of God [Luke 18:31, 34] / By Oswald ChambersE. C. D.T.C 2022. 7. 29. 16:19
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My Utmost for His Highest 2
/ The Baffling Call of God
[Luke 18:31, 34]
/ By Oswald Chambers
"And all things that are written
by the prophets concerning
the Son of man shall be
accomplished.
And they understood
none of these things."
(Luke 18:31, 34)
God called Jesus Christ to
what seemed unmitigated
disaster.
Jesus Christ
called His disciples.
to see Him put to death;
He led every one of them
to the place where their
hearts were broken.
Jesus Christ's life was an
absolute failure from every
stand point but God's.
But what seemed fail ure from
man's stand point was a
tremendous triumph
from God's,
because God's purpose is
never man's purpose.
There comes the baffling
call of God in our lives also.
The call of God can never
be stated ex plicitly;
it is implicit.
The call of God is like
the call of the sea,
no one hears it but the
one who has the nature
of the sea in him.
It cannot be stated
definitely what the call
of God is to,
because His call is to
be in comradeship with
Himself for His own purpose,
and the test is to believe
that God knows what
He is after.
The things that happen
do not happen by chance,
they happen entirely
in the decree of God.
God is working
out His purposes.
If we are in communion
with God and recognize
that He is taking us
into His purposes,
we shall no longer try
to find out what His
purposes are.
As we go on in the
Christian life it gets simpler,
because we are less
inclined to say
"Now why did
God allow this and that?"
Behind the wh ole thing lies
the compelling of God.
"There's a divinity
that shapes our ends."
A Christian is one who trusts
the wits and the wisdom
of God, and not his own wits.
If we have
a purpose of our own,
it destroys the simplicity
and the leisureliness
ought to characterize
the children of God.
- To Be Continue -
2022/01/18
/ By Oswald Chambers
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