My Utmost For His Highest
If the Son makes you free,
you shall be free indeed. —John 8:36
“… the spiritual part of our
being never says “I can’t”; it simply soaks up everything around it. Our spirit
hungers for more and more. It is the way we are built. We are designed with a
great capacity for God, but sin, our own
individuality, and wrong thinking keep us from getting to Him. God
delivers us from sin— we have to deliver ourselves from our individuality.
This means offering our natural life
to God and sacrificing it to Him, so He may transform it into spiritual
life through our obedience.[…] His plan runs right through our natural life. We
must see to it that we aid and assist God, and not stand against Him by saying,
“I can’t do that.” God will not discipline us; we must discipline ourselves.
God will not bring our “arguments…and every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5)— we have to do it. […] Stop listening
to the tyranny of your individual natural life and win freedom into the
spiritual life.[…] what Paul meant in
Galatians 2:20 when he said, “I have been crucified with Christ….” His individuality had been broken and his
spirit had been united with his Lord; not just merged into Him, but made
one with Him. “…you shall be free indeed”— free to the very core of your being;
free from the inside to the outside. We tend to rely on our own energy, instead
of being energized by the power that comes from identification with Jesus.” CHAMBERS
Freedom comes when we stop
making other things more important than our relationship with the Lord. It is really not that simple for us to do
that. Our natural devotions are so
strong in us. They demand first place in
our hearts. They suggest that we can
never be happy if we set them aside for devotion to God. Then we think, perhaps we can do both. Trying to do both is the reasoning of the
flesh, not the truth of God. (Matthew 6:24) “No one can serve two
masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be
devoted to the one and despise the other…”
Our struggle is letting go of those natural devotions and placing our
full trust in God. That is where faith
comes in. If you are having trouble
doing that, and you know if you are, then you need to draw closer to the Lord. Start by reading the Word more and setting
time aside to pray. When God says do
something and you think .. “I can’t”, that is the point you need to realize
that you never could and never will be able to do what God commands … that is
apart from the spiritual power you find through His Spirit, His Word and His
Son. (Philippians 4:13) “I can do all this through Him (Christ) who gives
me strength.” We find our supernatural
abilities and strength through the work of Jesus and by faith.
The truth of the matter is
that when you make the choice of preferring God over the world, you will find
freedom. Freedom no matter where you
find yourself. No matter what problem
you face. ELGIN
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
Charley Elgin
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