Singing Is Not Believing

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘Suppose that you have a deep “well” of hurt and trouble inside your heart, and Jesus comes and says to you, “Let not your heart be troubled . . .” (John 14:1). Would your response be to shrug your shoulders and say, “But, Lord, the well is too deep, and even You can’t draw up quietness and comfort out of it.” Actually, that is correct. Jesus doesn’t bring anything up from the wells of human nature— He brings them down from above. We limit the Holy One of Israel by remembering only what we have allowed Him to do for us in the past, and also by saying, “Of course, I cannot expect God to do this particular thing.” The thing that approaches the very limits of His power is the very thing we as disciples of Jesus ought to believe He will do. We impoverish and weaken His ministry in us the moment we forget He is almighty. The impoverishment is in us, not in Him. We will come to Jesus for Him to be our comforter or our sympathizer, but we refrain from approaching Him as our Almighty God.

 

The reason some of us are such poor examples of Christianity is that we have failed to recognize that Christ is almighty. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment or surrender to Jesus Christ. When we get into difficult circumstances, we impoverish His ministry by saying, “Of course, He can’t do anything about this.” We struggle to reach the bottom of our own well, trying to get water for ourselves. Beware of sitting back, and saying, “It can’t be done.” You will know it can be done if you will look to Jesus. The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.’ CHAMBERS

 We sing things about God but don’t actually believe them.  We sing … ‘He is able, more than able to accomplish what concerns me today.  He is able, more than able to handle anything that comes my way.’ And then we resolve ourselves to the belief that He can’t help us with a particular problem.  ‘A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing’. Really?  Do you believe that you can always trust in God to take care of you?  ‘Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe.  Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.’ Do you believe that God has forgiven all of your sins? Or do you think that there are some that even God could not or would not forgive.  Do you believe that He forgave the thief on the cross?  Why?  You don’t even know why the thief was crucified.

 

This is a song that the Haitians students sing in our English class. ‘My God is so big, so strong and so mighty There's nothing my God cannot do. The mountains are His, The valleys are His, The stars are His handiwork too’

 

This is nothing your God cannot do!

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)