Loosen Your Grip On Your Life And Cling To Jesus

My Utmost For His Highest

 

Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us! For we are exceedingly filled with contempt. —Psalm 123:3

 

“There are certain attitudes we should never dare to indulge. If we do, we will find they have distracted us from faith in God. [then] our faith is of no value, and our confidence in the flesh and in human ingenuity is what rules our lives. [1] Beware of “the cares of this world…” (Mark 4:19). They are the very things that produce the wrong attitudes in our soul. […] Refuse to be swamped by “the cares of this world.” [2] our passion for vindication. St. Augustine prayed, “O Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself.” Such a need for constant vindication destroys our soul’s faith in God. Don’t say, “I must explain myself,” or, “I must get people to understand.” […] When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”  CHAMBERS

 

The cares of this world and our need for people to think that we have it together … for us to believe that we have it together, even though we know that we don’t.  We are afraid that people might find out who we really are.  Christians already know who you are … a sinner saved by grace.  Someone who struggles with sin, who yields to temptation, who cares more about themselves than they do God or others.  Someone who tries really hard to be good.  We don’t want people to know that  .. and we certainly don’t want God to know . so we pretend that it’s our secret … from God and the world.  The problem is one of self-righteousness.  It is not from God, but from the devil.  Stop trying to be righteous and turn to the one who is righteous – Jesus.  Stop clinging to your own devices and cling to Jesus.  Let go of your grip on the world and what it offers and cling to Jesus. Stop trying to vindicate yourself and justify your sin and cling to Jesus.   ELGIN

 

“You are my strength when I am weak, You are the treasure that I seek, You are my all in all.  Jesus, Lamb of God worthy is your name.”

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

 

Charley Elgin