Still Human!

November 16 Daily Devotional

Still Human! Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.  1 Corinthians 10:31 The great marvel of the Incarnation slips into ordinary childhood’s life; the great marvel of the Transfiguration vanishes in the devil-possessed valley; the glory of the Resurrection descends into a breakfast on the sea-shore. This is not an anticlimax, but a great revelation of God. The tendency is to look for the marvellous in our experience; we mistake the sense of the heroic for being heroes. It is one thing to go through a crisis grandly, but another thing to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, no one paying the remotest attention to us. If we do not want medieval haloes, we want something that will make people say — “What a wonderful man of prayer he is!” “What a pious devoted woman she is!” If you are rightly devoted to the Lord Jesus, you have reached the sublime height where no one ever thinks of noticing you, all that is noticed is that the power of God comes through you all the time. “Oh, I have had a wonderful call from God!” It takes Almighty God Incarnate in us to do the meanest* duty to the glory of God. It takes God’s Spirit in us to make us so absolutely humanly His that we are utterly unnoticeable. The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited. *mean: as used here, something or someone ordinary, common, low, or ignoble, rather than cruel or spiteful. From My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition Bible in One Year: Ezekiel 3-4; Hebrews 11:20-40

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS Our danger is to water down God’s word to suit ourselves. God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word. from Not Knowing Whither, 901 R

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