You know, I was reading Oswald Chambers today, I realize once
again I have to change my post.
All the divisions amongst us Christian, the conflicts, the lack
of power we Christians are living with, the anxieties, the fact that apostasy
has taken over the Church and we are not capable of discerning those imposters and live out the truth of true Salvation. All
the need to build empires for our own greed and ego, pastors caught with their
pants down, the need in the Church family to assign titles to ourselves to feel
we matter. The dead works that we pass for Christianity etc, are all found in April
11 & April 12th devotional.
These are deep stuff that we can understand when we leave behind
our standards of Christianity and take on His. We get what Oswald is saying
only when we truly walk with the Spirit. Otherwise we are doing Christianity in
our ignorance and sadly we are so busy doing Christianity and immersing ourselves
in the culture we have never made the time to become true Christians according
to God’s standards of what Christianity should be. If I do not control myself,
I could go on and on. But, I am hoping if one of you could give some thoughts
to the reality of what Oswald wrote, if only one of you surrender in complete
abandonment to Him for the sake of becoming one of His own, then to God be the
Glory.
One of the beauties of living in the Spirit and walking in
oneness with Him (even when we are not mature Christian yet) is that He enjoys witnessing
to our Spirit. So most of the time while this life is being worked in us, (impartation)
we know through the Holy Spirit they are happening in us and through us. I know
most of the time I sound like a broken record, but I also have to live with the
reality of who the God we serve is about. Too many of us “Christians” are going
to find out at a time when we cannot change things anymore. Too many of us
dictate the terms of Salvation to God and too many of us do not realize God is
not going to take all the Christians Churches
When we bring the bar very low, we count on His love instead of Salvation,
to get us there. But, God does not bow to anyone. His Word says in Romans 9:15 “For
God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show
compassion to anyone I choose.” When we bring the bar so low to accommodate
our idea of what Christianity should be, when we spend most of our time finding
loopholes in His covenant with us and when we spend most of our time claiming
those verses that evoke His clemency and love we force His hand.
We put Him in a corner like Satan did, in our insolence, our
greed, lack of humility, lack of reverence, harden and disobedient hearts we
forget that He is God and no one can ever corner Him with His own Word. Sure He
said I will never forsake you but He also said “woe to you” He also said Thou shalt
not have any gods before Me. Then how come you have been so busy
serving yourself while thinking you could fool Him? How come those words that
Oswald mentioned in his devotional, after decades of calling yourself
Christians you have no idea what they mean? Could it be you have been way too
busy being your own master and you did not even noticed? Haven’t you noticed
those verses in the Bible where God talked about the power of Salvation have
eluded you? Are you hoping the fact that you fake it so well He is going to be
impressed with you? Was God lying when His Word says Salvation has power to
change us inwardly to make us like Him? The fact is, when we are not truly following
Him, we get caught up in our own hypes.
Take heed to Oswald Chamber’s words while you can. They are the
difference between imputation and impartation and whether the explanation suits
you or not, does not change God’s Standards and plan about His Salvation.
HERE IS OSWALD CHAMBERS DEVOTION FOR TODAY & TOMORROW
Complete and Effective Divinity
Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have experienced crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a definite likeness to Him. The Spirit of Jesus entering me rearranges my personal life before God. The resurrection of Jesus has given Him the authority to give the life of God to me, and the experiences of my life must now be built on the foundation of His life. I can have the resurrection life of Jesus here and now, and it will exhibit itself through holiness.
The idea all through the apostle Paul’s writings is that after the decision to be identified with Jesus in His death has been made, the resurrection life of Jesus penetrates every bit of my human nature. It takes the omnipotence of God— His complete and effective divinity— to live the life of the Son of God in human flesh. The Holy Spirit cannot be accepted as a guest in merely one room of the house— He invades all of it. And once I decide that my “old man” (that is, my heredity of sin) should be identified with the death of Jesus, the Holy Spirit invades me. He takes charge of everything. My part is to walk in the light and to obey all that He reveals to me. Once I have made that important decision about sin, it is easy to “reckon” that I am actually “dead indeed to sin,” because I find the life of Jesus in me all the time (Romans 6:11). Just as there is only one kind of humanity, there is only one kind of holiness— the holiness of Jesus. And it is His holiness that has been given to me. God puts the holiness of His Son into me, and I belong to a new spiritual order
Complete and Effective Dominion
Co-Eternal Life. Eternal life is the life which Jesus Christ exhibited on the human level. And it is this same life, not simply a copy of it, which is made evident in our mortal flesh when we are born again. Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin.
“You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you . . .” (Acts 1:8)— not power as a gift from the Holy Spirit; the power is the Holy Spirit, not something that He gives us. The life that was in Jesus becomes ours because of His Cross, once we make the decision to be identified with Him. If it is difficult to get right with God, it is because we refuse to make this moral decision about sin. But once we do decide, the full life of God comes in immediately. Jesus came to give us an endless supply of life— “. . . that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). Eternal life has nothing to do with time. It is the life which Jesus lived when He was down here, and the only Source of life is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Even the weakest saint can experience the power of the deity of the Son of God, when he is willing to “let go.” But any effort to “hang on” to the least bit of our own power will only diminish the life of Jesus in us. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part. Then Jesus will have complete and effective dominion in us, and people will take notice that we have been with Him
Oswald's devotional is courtesy of:http://utmost.org/
