Jan 19
“When God gives a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will make you in accordance with the vision He has given if you will wait His time. ” -Oswald Chambers -Genesis 15:12
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Jan 18
“The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him.” -Oswald Chambers
Jan 13
“If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul. Your brother’s sorrows and perplexities are an absolute confusion to you.” –Oswald Chambers –Mark 4:10
Jan 7
“When once we get intimate with Jesus we are never lonely, we never need sympathy, we can pour out all the time without being pathetic…The only impression left by such a life is that of the strong calm sanity that Our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.” –Oswald Chambers –John 14:9
Jan 2
“He went out, not knowing whither he went.” “Have you been ‘out’ in this way? If so, there is no logical statement possible when anyone asks you what you are doing. One of the difficulties in Christian work is the question– ‘What do you expect to do?’ You do not know what you are going to do; the only thing you know that God knows what He is doing.” –Oswald Chambers –Hebrews 11:8
Dec 31
“Our present enjoyment of God’s grace is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday’s sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God reminds us of our past lest we get into a shallow security in the present. … Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is […]
Dec 29
“You can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth. That moment marks you for going on as a more true disciple of Jesus Christ or for going back as a deserter.” –Oswald Chambers –John 6:66
Dec 23
“Every now and again, Our Lord lets us see what we would be like if it were not for Himself; it is a justification of what He said– ‘Without Me ye can do nothing.’ That is why the bedrock of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to the Lord Jesus.” –Oswald Chambers –Galatians 6:14
Absence at Christmastime
Last night at church, we sang a new Christmas song about the King of Kings being born and now known to the world (well, this seems obvious since it was, after all, a song about Baby Jesus!–lols). But the song was also about rejoicing for the first arrival of the one who will defeat our enemy and how we wait for his second arrival. And oddly enough, as we sung the song, I felt sad! […]
Dec 21
“Never nourish an experience which has not God as its Source and faith in God as its result. If you do, your experience is anti-Christian, no matter what visions you may have had. Is Jesus Christ Lord of your experiences, or do you try to lord it over Him? … There comes a time when God will make you impatient with your own experience–I do not care what I experience; I am sure of Him.” […]