Fellowship In The Gospel

November 10 Daily Devotional

Fellowship In The Gospel Fellow labourer in the gospel of Christ.  1 Thessalonians 3:2 After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in life is, because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Ghost. He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used His Son for the purpose of our salvation. If you seek great things for yourself— “God has called me for this and that,” you are putting a barrier to God’s use of you. As long as you have a personal interest in your own character, or any set ambition, you cannot get through into identification with God’s interests. You can only get there by losing for ever any idea of yourself and by letting God take you right out into His purpose for the world, and because your goings are of the Lord, you can never understand your ways. I have to learn that the aim in life is God’s, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say— “Lord, this gives me such heartache.” To talk in that way makes me a clog. When I stop telling God what I want, He can catch me up for what He wants without let or hindrance.* He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses. He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness. Self pity is of the devil; if I go off on that line I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world. I have “a world within the world” in which I live, and God will never be able to get me outside it because I am afraid of being frost-bitten. *without let or hindrance: legal phrase meaning “without obstacle or impediment.” From My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition Bible in One Year: Jeremiah 48-49; Hebrews 7

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation. What God looks at is what we are in the dark—the imaginations of our minds; the thoughts of our heart; the habits of our bodies; these are the things that mark us in God’s sight. from The Love of God—The Ministry of the Unnoticed, 669 L

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