心意阑珊

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: 

for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. 

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Divine Exchange

No turning away.
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My Utmost for His Highest - Oswald Chambers

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me . . . Galatians 2:20

These words mean the breaking and collapse of my independence brought about by my own hands, and the surrendering of my life to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it myself. God may bring me up to this point three hundred and sixty-five times a year, but He cannot push me through it. It means breaking the hard outer layer of my individual independence from God, and the liberating of myself and my nature into oneness with Him; not following my own ideas, but choosing absolute loyalty to Jesus. Once I am at that point, there is no possibility of misunderstanding. Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ or understand what He meant when He said, “. . . for My sake” (Matthew 5:11). That is what makes a strong saint.

Has that breaking of my independence come? All the rest is religious fraud. The one point to decide is— will I give up? Will I surrender to Jesus Christ, placing no conditions whatsoever as to how the brokenness will come? I must be broken from my own understanding of myself. When I reach that point, immediately the reality of the supernatural identification with Jesus Christ takes place. And the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable— “I have been crucified with Christ . . . .”

The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

My heart, Your home

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God,

 and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 

1 Cor 3:16

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; 

as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; 

and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 

Wherefore come out from among them,  and be ye separate, saith the Lord, 

and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 

And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

2 Cor 6:16-18

These verses were very strongly impressed upon my heart on Sunday. God's presence in our lives is not dependent on where we are; it is dependent on where He is in our lives. It behoves us to make fit this temple for His dwelling, that His presence may be a reality in us.