Oswald Chambers – My Utmost for His Highest – Friday, 24 January
2014 “The Overmastering Direction”
I have appeared unto thee for this purpose. (Acts 26:16)
The vision Paul had on the road to
Damascus was no passing emotion, but a vision that had very clear and emphatic
directions for him, and he says, "I was not disobedient to the heavenly
vision." Our Lord said, in effect, to Paul – Your whole life is to be
overmastered by Me; you are to have no end, no aim, and no purpose but Mine. "I have chosen him."
When we are born again we all have
visions, if we are spiritual at all, of what Jesus wants us to be, and the
great thing is to learn not to be disobedient to the vision, not to say that it
cannot be attained. It is not sufficient to know that God has redeemed the
world, and to know that the Holy Spirit can make all that Jesus did effectual
in me; I must have the basis of a personal relationship to Him. Paul was not
given a message or a doctrine to proclaim, he was brought into a vivid, personal,
overmastering relationship to Jesus Christ. Verse 16 is immensely commanding –
"to make thee a minister and a witness." There is nothing there apart
from the personal relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person not to a cause. He
was absolutely Jesus Christ’s, he saw nothing else, he lived for nothing else.
"For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and
Him crucified."
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