My Utmost for His Highest 2 / The Baffling Call of God [Luke 18:31, 34] / By Oswald Chambers

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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