From Oswald Chambers' devotional My Utmost
for His Highest:
"And straightway He constrained His
disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side. . . ." — Mark
6:45-52
"We are apt to imagine that if Jesus
Christ constrains us, and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success. We
must never put our dreams of success as God’s purpose for us; His purpose may
be exactly the opposite. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular
end, a desired goal; He is not. The question of getting to a particular end is
a mere incident. What we call the process, God calls the end.
"What is my dream of God’s purpose?
His purpose is that I depend on Him and on His power now. If I can stay in the
middle of the turmoil calm and unperplexed, that is the end of the purpose of
God. God is not working towards a particular finish; His end is the
process--that I see Him walking on the waves, no shore in sight, no success, no
goal, just the absolute certainty that it is all right because I see Him
walking on the sea. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God.
"God’s training is for now, not
presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We
have nothing to do with the afterwards of obedience; we get wrong when we think
of the afterwards. What men call training and preparation, God calls the end.
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