Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His
Highest – Monday, 25 November 2013 “The Secret of Spiritual Coherence”
But God forbid that I should glory, save
in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.(Galatians 6:14)
When a man is first born again, he
becomes incoherent, there is an amount of unrelated emotion about him,
unrelated phases of external things. In the apostle Paul there was a strong
steady coherence underneath, consequently he could let his external life change
as it liked and it did not distress him because he was rooted and grounded in
God. Most of us are not spiritually coherent because we are more concerned
about being coherent externally. Paul lived in the basement; the coherent
critics live in the upper storey of the external statement of things, and the
two do not begin to touch each other. Paul’s consistency was down in the
fundamentals. The great basis of his coherence was the agony of God in the
Redemption of the world, viz., the Cross of Jesus Christ.
Re-state to yourself what you believe,
then do away with as much of it as possible, and get back to the bedrock of the
Cross of Christ. In external history the Cross is an infinitesimal thing; from
the Bible point of view it is of more importance than all the empires of the
world. If we get away from brooding on the tragedy of God upon the Cross in our
preaching, it produces nothing. It does not convey the energy of God to man; it
may be interesting but it has no power. But preach the Cross, and the energy of
God is let loose. "It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save
them that believe." "We preach Christ crucified."
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