Overcoming Obstacles

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘The river of the Spirit of God overcomes all obstacles. Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source. Never allow anything to come between you and Jesus Christ— not emotion nor experience— nothing must keep you from the one great sovereign Source.’ CHAMBERS

 

Do you face challenges in your life? I think I can hear to ‘DUH!’ echoing across cyberspace.  We all do. So the question is not whether you will encounter problems, but how you will respond when you do.  Americans are so achievement oriented.   Not to say that is bad, but the danger is that we may choose to not wait on God but to do something on our own .. to make it happen.  I call it the sin of King Saul.  Do you remember when he was supposed to destroy everything but decided that he should save some (1 Samuel 15) … that he decided to not wait on Samuel, but to offer a sacrifice himself?  He faced obstacles and decided to do it his way and not wait on God.  (1 Samuel 13)

 

That is what happens when we lose sight of God and face our obstacles on our own.  When we trust ourselves and not God.  We may say we are acting in the name of the Lord, but really we are operating in our own power.  We cannot do something God has called us to do using our own wisdom and expect the outcome to be pleasing to God.  That is why we have to keep our eyes fixed on God and not the problem.  There is nothing too hard for God … but there is a quite a long list of things that are too hard for me (Jeremiah 32:17).

 

What obstacle are you facing today?  Look to God.

 

‘Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.’ (Psalm 20:7)

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)