Daily Reflections with Oswald Chambers [January 22, 2007]

My Utmost for His Highest (The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers; 1992) ^ | 1935/1992 | Oswald Chambers

[.30Carbine]

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.

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...and amen! there is much to lead to praise on this thread!

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You're welcome my dear FRiend. I've been so filled with thanksgiving these January days especially as I've posted the thread, knowing my year is coming to its close, and knowing how very faithful my Jesus has been to me through it, and how kind, how very gracious, to grant me this great privilege. It is beyond comprehension, His Love, His Power.

[hosepipe]

[ I myself was astounded at my stupidity! ]

Me too about my own..

[.30Carbine]

I love that quote! Thank you so much, Kate! I have a series of books with quotes and excerpts from the Early Church Fathers - Rekindling the Inner Fire Devotional Series, by David Hazard. They are a delight. You will believe this: When I awoke this morning it was from a dream in which I had been speaking with Tertullian (circa AD 160-220). I ran to my bookcase to find the book in the series titled You Give Me New Life: The Early Disciples, and found a bio. and excerpt from Tertullian there! Here is just a taste of what that early disciple wrote on the The [Lord's] Prayer:

[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.

[.30Carbine]

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!

[.30Carbine]

Hi bp! My "daily hymnbook" is called The One Year Book of Hymns, compiled and edited by Robert K. Brown and Mark R. Norton, with devotionals written by William J. Peterson and Randy Petersen; Tyndale House, Wheaton, IL., 1995.

[.30Carbine]

Amen, and thank you very much for those good words from Scripture, Vision!

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When God SEEMS far away...
WHO MOVED?...

Perfect! I love that! Thank you!

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Both the devotion and song are a beautiful reminder to look to Jesus always.

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!

[.30Carbine]

LOL!

[bperiwinkle7]

Thanks!

[Alamo-Girl]

I thank God for you and praise Him for your sanctification and abundant joy!

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.

[.30Carbine]

Thank you, A-G. Laurels for Jesus.