Saturday, May 25, 2013

Don't Act Naturally

My Utmost For His Highest
 
God sometimes allows you to get into a place of testing where your own welfare would be the appropriate thing to consider, if you were not living the life of faith. […] This is the discipline God uses to transform the natural into the spiritual through obedience to His voice. […] Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight. The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. […]  Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us. We have to learn to walk according to the standard which has its eyes focused on God. And God says to us, as He did to Abram, “. . . walk before Me. . .” (Genesis 17:1).’ CHAMBERS
 
You don’t know if you really trust God until you are tested.  Life is full of these tests … some are small and some are life changing … “trusting with all you heart” (Prov 3;5) does not leave much room for anything else.  Many times we choose our own way only to find out that it doesn’t work any better than the last time we did it. So why do we habitually rely on ourselves and not God?  Buck Owens ( a country western singer from days gone by) sang a song that said “All you’ve got to do is act naturally.”  That is our problem .. we act according to our old nature .. what comes natural to us .. trusting God is super-natural.  To follow God requires faith which means that there is uncertainty … we can’t see it .. can’t think through it .. reason it out … it is something “hoped for and not seen” ( Hebrews 11:1).  It will certainly bring about change in us .. it may very well be uncomfortable for us … but God will be glorified through us.  Which is our “chief end”…. and fulfillment of our purpose and God’s leading …
 
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

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