Posted on 01/22/2007 3:10:15 AM PST by .30Carbine
Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He says, "Look to Me, and be saved . . . ." The greatest difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God, and His blessings are what make it so difficult. Troubles almost always make us look to God, but His blessings tend to divert our attention elsewhere. The basic lesson of the Sermon on the Mount is to narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ. "Look to Me . . . ."
Many of us have a mental picture of what a Christian should be, and looking at this image in other Christians’ lives becomes a hindrance to our focusing on God. This is not salvation— it is not simple enough. He says, in effect, "Look to Me and you are saved," not "You will be saved someday." We will find what we are looking for if we will concentrate on Him. We get distracted from God and irritable with Him while He continues to say to us, "Look to Me, and be saved . . . ." Our difficulties, our trials, and our worries about tomorrow all vanish when we look to God.
Wake yourself up and look to God. Build your hope on Him. No matter how many things seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to push them aside and look to Him. "Look to Me . . . ." Salvation is yours the moment you look.
In 1910 Chambers married Gertrude Hobbs. They had one daughter, Kathleen, who still resides in London (as of 1992).
In 1911 he founded and became principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham, London, where he lectured until the school was closed in 1915 because of World War I. In October 1915 he sailed for Zeitoun, Egypt (near Cairo), where he ministered to Australian and New Zealand troops as a YMCA chaplain. He died there November 15, 1917, following surgery for a ruptured appendix.
My Utmost for His Highest, his best-known book, has been continuously in print in the United States since 1935 and in this, the last decade of the century, remains in the top ten titles of the religious book bestseller list with millions of copies in print. It has become a Christian classic. [from the flyleaf of the book]
You are so gifted and filled with loving goodness from Jesus - you've remembered to pray for these travelers every year as I recall. Thank you.
...and amen! there is much to lead to praise on this thread!
Me too about my own..
[S]ome mistakenly think that God needs to hear our praises - as if He were some earthly king who needs the kind words of His subjects. This is not so. God's name is hallowed, and it is we who need to be reminded. For God is not made holy by us, or by our words - we are made holy in Him.
Sadly, "Tertullian became a critic of grace," and an author of "Montanism forc[ing] rigid rules on naive converts." Those comments from the bio. directly spoke to some recent conversations I've eavesdropped on here at FR. As Chambers says so well in this devotion:
Many of us have a mental picture of what a Christian should be, and looking at this image in other Christians’ lives becomes a hindrance to our focusing on God. This is not salvation— it is not simple enough.
May God our Every-Provider lead you to just the right place of fellowship, teaching, worship, togetherness that will fit perfectly with your needs and desires, just the way He made thee, and as only He knows. Amen in Jesus!
Amen, and thank you very much for those good words from Scripture, Vision!
Perfect! I love that! Thank you!
I'm so glad we see it the same way! May it be so for us and all who come here always, that we ever only always look to and see Jesus fully, joyfully, simply!
LOL!
Thanks!
And I thank you for your faithfulness and love in posting these devotions and more importantly in encouraging the sharing of testimonies and worship which follow.
Thank you, A-G. Laurels for Jesus.
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