My Utmost For His Highest
As for me, being on the way,
the Lord led me… —Genesis 24:27
“A child’s life is normally
obedient, until he chooses disobedience. But as soon as he chooses to disobey,
an inherent inner conflict is produced. On the spiritual level, inner conflict is the warning of the Spirit
of God. When He warns us in this way, we must stop at once and be renewed
in the spirit of our mind to discern God’s will (see Romans 12:2). If we are
born again by the Spirit of God, our
devotion to Him is hindered, or even stopped, by continually asking Him to
guide us here and there. “…the Lord led me…” and on looking back we see the
presence of an amazing design. If we are born of God we will see His guiding
hand and give Him the credit. We can all see God in exceptional things,
but it requires the growth of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.
Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than
God’s appointed order.” CHAMBERS
(Zechariah 7: 4-6,
9-12) “Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: “Ask all the people
of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and
seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you
fasted? And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for
yourselves? “This is what the Lord
Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one
another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the
poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’ “But they refused to pay attention;
stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. They made their
hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that
the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the
Lord Almighty was very angry.”
The nation did not have the Holy Spirit, per se, it had
prophets. But the people hardened their
hearts toward the Word of the Lord. Like
many times before. So how could that be
when the mighty acts of God were so obvious. Let’s fast forward to today. We have the Holy Spirit in us as a seal and
as an advocate. When we are convicted by
the Spirit, there is an inner conflict created in the heart. But, if our hearts are not committed to the
Lord, we will resist the leading of the Spirit and follow our own way. As time goes on, the inner conflict becomes
less intense. We no longer are
responsive to the spirit.
(1
Thessalonians 5:19-22) “Do not quench the Spirit. Do not treat prophecies
with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of
evil.” If the Spirit brings inner
conflict and you brush it off, thinking that doesn’t really matter to God, the
hardening process has begun. Have your
children ever said to you “You just don’t want me to have any fun.”? What they mean is, they know better, let them
do what they want to do without any constraints. That is essentially what we tell God when we
resist the Spirit’s influence. Be
careful Christian. Many well-intentioned
people have slipped down this slope. Every
day, yield your heart to the Lord and welcome the conviction of the
Spirit. It is for your good and His
glory. ELGIN
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
Charley Elgin
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