You Can't Walk On The Water Without Jesus

My Utmost For His Highest

I am already being poured out as a drink offering… —2 Timothy 4:6

{CHAMBERS} “Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions. Tell God you are ready to be offered as a sacrifice for Him. Then accept the consequences as they come, without any complaints, in spite of what God may send your way. God sends you through a crisis in private, where no other person can help you. […] Once you have experienced the crisis in your will, you will take no thought of the cost when it begins to affect you externally. […] You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents— burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose— the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God. But you don’t eliminate it, God does. […] After you have gone through the fire, there will be nothing that will be able to trouble or depress you. When another crisis arises, you will realize that things cannot touch you as they used to do.”

{ELGIN}  (Romans 12:1) “offer yourself as a living sacrifice … it’s your reasonable service of worship”  The Lord has called us to a life that depends fully on Him and separate from the world.  We all struggle with that tug of war.  Paul described it in Romans 7, “The things I don’t want to do, I do.  The things I want to do, I don’t do.”  We miss the point when we think that offering ourselves as a sacrifice means that we must try harder to live the sanctified life.  A sacrifice is submitted to its master.  We can do nothing more than say “Here I am”.  It is God who brings the change in us, but only if we are willing to say “Not my will but Your will be done.”  On the day you were born again, that was your attitude.  We all need to recapture that attitude and that willingness.  It should be our perspective every day. We “sink into the waves” because we lose focus on the Master of the sea.  Instead we focus on difficult, if not impossible, it is to walk on the water with Him.  It is impossible without Him.