God Only Blesses Us In Our Obedience

My Utmost For His Highest

“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” —James 4:8

“The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will. When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will, not necessarily externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood— work it into your life. The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is liberated the second he acts and God’s almighty power is available on his behalf. We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again. Then we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no business going back. When we are confronted with such a word of truth from our redeeming Lord, we must move directly to transact business with Him. “Come to Me…” (Matthew 11:28). His word come means “to act.” Yet the last thing we want to do is come. But everyone who does come knows that, at that very moment, the supernatural power of the life of God invades him. The dominating power of the world, the flesh, and the devil is now paralyzed; not by your act, but because your act has joined you to God and tapped you in to His redemptive power.” CHAMBERS

When you are confronted with the Truth of God, you know it.  The troubling question is always, “What are you going to do about it?”  The Truth always confronts what is not true.  If there is something in your life that is contrary to the nature of God, the Word and the Spirit Truth will expose it.  Once exposed, you are faced with a choice.  Do you act in obedience to the Truth or disregard it (a kinder way of describing disobedience).  But most often we choose to not consider it disobedience, but rather merely a choice that is available to us.  (James 4:17)  “Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do [to know the Truth] and then not do it.”  This is something you can tuck in your pocket : God does not bless us in our disobedience.  What you don’t realize at the moment you are confronted with the Truth is that you have entered into Spiritual warfare.   Your spiritual nature is doing battle with your old nature, your sinful nature.  If you choose to ignore the Truth, it is because your flesh is stronger than your spirit and if you think that God will bless you anyway, you are deceiving yourself.  Think about it.  ELGIN

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

Charley Elgin