"Come
to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest."
{Mat
11:28}
What
a week this has been. In fact, the last few weeks, even the whole
month has been quite a struggle. Where does all this turmoil come
from?
In
morning devotions with my Lord, I asked this question; "Father,
Jesus teaches us to always trust in You; always include You in all
that we do with the purpose of continually bringing glory to You
through our obedience. Show me where I need to do better in pleasing
You Lord, Amen".
I
then went about my usual studies. When I opened Oswald Chambers,
Utmost for His Highest, it was the chapter entitled Christ-Awareness
that immediately bonded my full attention. I pray that you will find
direction and comfort in what Brother Chambers has written as I did,
AMEN.
CHRIST-AWARENESS
Oswald
Chambers
Whenever
anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to
Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never allow
anything to remain in your life that is causing the unrest. Think of
every detail of your life that is causing the disintegration as
something to fight against, not as something you should allow to
remain. Ask the Lord to put awareness of Himself in you, and your
self-awareness will disappear. Then He will be your all in all.
Beware of allowing your self-awareness to continue, because slowly
but surely it will awaken self-pity, and self-pity is satanic. Don’t
allow yourself to say, “Well, they have just misunderstood me, and
this is something over which they should be apologizing to me; I’m
sure I must have this cleared up with them already.” Learn to leave
others alone regarding this. Simply ask the Lord to give you
Christ-awareness, and He will steady you until your completeness in
Him is absolute.
A
complete life is the life of a child. When I am fully conscious of my
awareness of Christ, there is something wrong. It is the sick person
who really knows what health is. A child of God is not aware of the
will of God because he is the will of God. When we have deviated even
slightly from the will of God, we begin to ask, “Lord, what is your
will?” A child of God never prays to be made aware of the fact that
God answers prayer, because he is so restfully certain that God
always answers prayer.
If we
try to overcome our self-awareness through any of our own commonsense
methods, we will only serve to strengthen our self-awareness
tremendously. Jesus says, “Come to Me…and I will give you rest,”
that is, Christ-awareness will take the place of self-awareness.
Wherever Jesus comes He establishes rest— the rest of the
completion of activity in our lives that is never aware of itself.
(My deepest
gratitude to Oswald Chambers Publications - London with this
heartfelt thanks by attribution)
It
is so difficult for some of us to actually take our hands OFF the
steering wheel and let HIM drive. Trust in Jesus. Satan's most
effective tool of temptation is our impatience. We HATE to WAIT.
Let
the Lord drive. Trust no one but Him.
Come
into me Jesus, remove the me and replace it fully with Thee, AMEN.
"Take
My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in
heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. (30) "For My
yoke is easy and My burden is light." {Mat 11:29-30}
HAVE
YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?
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