Do It Yourself?

Bringing into captivity every thought
   to the obedience of Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5

In our Lord's life every project was disciplined to the
will of the Father. There was not a movement of an
impulse of His own will as distinct from His Father's--
"The Son can do nothing of Himself."
Then take ourselves--a vivid religious experience,
and every project born of impulse put into action
immediately, instead of being imprisoned and disci-
plined to obey Christ.

This is a day when practical work is overemphasized,
and the saints who are binging every project into cap-
tivity are criticized and told they are not in earnest for
God or for souls. True earnestness is found in obeying
God, not in the inclination to serve Him that is born
of undisciplined human nature. It is inconceivable,
but true nevertheless, that saints are not bringing e-
very project into captivity, but are doing for God at the
instigation of their own human nature which has not
been spiritualized by determined discipline.

We are apt to forget that a man is not only committed
to Jesus Christ for salvation; he is committed to Jesus
Christ's view of God, of the world, of sin, and of the
devil, and that will mean that he must recognize the
responsibility of being transformed by the renewing
of his mind. 

- Oswald Chambers