Convicted. - Early this week I read this and knew that, yeah, I have to work on this in my life.
The quote goes well with the this week's scripture.
"I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord." Jeremiah 1:8
God promised Jeremiah that He would deliver him personally - "Thy life will I give unto thee for a prey." That is all God promises His children. Wherever God sends us, He will guard our lives. Our personal property and possessions are a matter of indifference, we have to sit loosely to all those things; if we do not, there will be panic and heartbreak and distress. That is the inwardness of the overshadowing of personal deliverance.
Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it. If we look for justice, we will begin to grouse and to indulge in the discontent of self-pity - Why should I be treated like this? If we are devoted to Jesus Christ we have nothing to do with what we meet, whether it is just or unjust. Jesus says - Go steadily on with what I have told you to do and I will guard your life. If you try to guard it yourself, you remove yourself from My deliverance. The most devout among us become atheistic in this connection; we do not believe God, we enthrone common sense and tack the name of God on to it. We do lean to our own understanding, instead of trusting God with all our hearts.
Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest": June 27
I was reminded of this devotion today because... well, today did not go as planned. A job that should've taken me two to two and half hours took me seven because of machinery breakdown. So most everything else I needed to accomplish today ahead of leaving Sunday on my mission trip is still waiting.
Relying fully on the knowledge that my heavenly Father knows what is coming down the pike and has provided a way for me to get through it and even grow is sometimes a hard thing for me to do. Feelings tend to get in the way.
But the knowledge, there in the back of my mind, in the depth of my soul, remains.
