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| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 431 Registered: 8-2004  |
Dear friends, This devotional reading blessed me (and stepped on my toes) last night, and I want to share it with you! ". . . in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses." 2 Corinthians 6:4 "It takes Almighty grace to take the next step when there is no vision and no spectator - the next step in devotion, the next step in your study, in your reading, in your kitchen; the next step in your duty when there is no vision from God, no enthusiasm and no spectator. It takes far more of the grace of God, far more conscious drawing upon God to take that next step, than it does to preach the Gospel. "Every Christian has to partake of what was the essence of the Incarnation, he must bring the thing down into flesh and blood actualities and work it out thru the fingertips. We flag when there is no vision, no uplift, but just the common round, the trivial task. The thing that tells in the long run for God and for men is the steady persevering work in the unseen, and the only way to keep the life uncrushed is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the Risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to damp you. Continually get away from bettiness and paltriness of mind and thought out into the thirteenth chapter of St. John's Gospel." - taken from "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers May each of us be blessed as we, by God's grace, keep our spirits "open to the Risen Christ"! Blessings, Mary | ||
| Seekr777 Registered user Username: Seekr777 Post Number: 429 Registered: 1-2003  |
Mary, "the only way to keep the life uncrushed is to live looking to God." Amen richard rtruitt@mac.com | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 1393 Registered: 3-2005 |
"It takes Almighty grace to take the next step when there is no vision and no spectator..." I wonder what some of these TV preachers would do if their were no spectators (Benny Hinn would go away). Thanks Mary for another challenging devotional from Chambers. Stan | ||
| Cathy2 Registered user Username: Cathy2 Post Number: 46 Registered: 2-2006 |
Thank you so much, Mary, for these devotionals. I always get so much from his simple, but profound wisdom about Christ. "...in the kitchen..." LOL! Yes, that's one place, it would help me. I am a mother first and the daily, mundane things of life are my life, no matter how much I live in my head, at times. Focusing on the risen Christ...yes! His resurrected life in us, our souls; the power of that for us! I do not remember that often enough. My perspective would be different even in the 'small' things, more often. Stan, you make me giggle. You are correct. Benny, Parsley, all of them, would go away. I wish they would with all their theatrics. Risen in him, even for the dishes, Cathy |
