Something
More About His Ways
From Oswald Chambers' devotional My Utmost
for His Highest:
"When Jesus had made an end of
commanding his disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their
cities." — Matthew 11:1
"He comes where He commands us to
leave. If when God said 'Go,' you stayed because you were so concerned about
your people at home, you robbed them of the teaching and preaching of Jesus
Christ Himself. When you obeyed and left all consequences to God, the Lord went
into your city to teach; as long as you would not obey, you were in the way.
Watch where you begin to debate and to put what you call duty in competition
with your Lord’s commands. 'I know He told me to go, but then my duty was
here;' that means you do not believe that Jesus means what He says.
"He teaches where He instructs us not
to. 'Master, . . . let us make three tabernacles.' Are we playing the spiritual
amateur providence in other lives? Are we so noisy in our instruction of others
that God cannot get anywhere near them? We have to keep our mouths shut and our
spirits alert. God wants to instruct us in regard to His Son, He wants to turn
our times of prayer into mounts of transfiguration, and we will not let Him.
When we are certain of the way God is going to work, He will never work in that
way any more.
"He works where He sends us to wait.
'Tarry ye . . . until . . .' Wait on God and He will work, but don’t wait in
spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached
enough from our own spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit
with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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