With Jesus, One Is Not The Loneliest Number

My Utmost For His Highest

 

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfect… —Philippians 3:12

 

“God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. […] How can we say, “It could never be God’s will for me to be sick”? If it was God’s will to bruise His own Son (Isaiah 53:10), why shouldn’t He bruise you? What shines forth and reveals God in your life is not your relative consistency to an idea of what a saint should be, but your genuine, living relationship with Jesus Christ, and your unrestrained devotion to Him whether you are well or sick. Christian perfection is not, and never can be, human perfection. Christian perfection is the perfection of a relationship with God that shows itself to be true even amid the seemingly unimportant aspects of human life. […] I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.” CHAMBERS

 

(John 17: 20-23)  “[Jesus] I pray also for those who will believe in me through their [disciples] message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—  I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”  To be one with the Father, with Jesus, and with other Christians.  One in Spirit, one in purpose.  We get so focused on us and our individual, day to day existence and the challenges those days bring that we can lose sight of the context of our new birth.  We are saved by His grace and reborn into His purpose.  We are to lift Jesus up so that all men (people) will be drawn to Him and find eternal life.  Are we to turn from sin, yes.  Are we to reject love for the world and the things of this world, yes.  But those things will happen as we draw close to the Father and become one with the Father and the Son.  We may have a heart for obedience, but the strength for obedience comes from God, not from our resolve. ELGIN

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

 

Charley Elgin