Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His
Highest – Tuesday, 26 November 2013 “The Concentration Of Spiritual Energy”. .
. save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.(Galatians 6:14)
If you want to know the energy of God
(i.e., the resurrection life of Jesus) in your mortal flesh, you must brood on
the tragedy of God. Cut yourself off from prying personal interest in your own
spiritual symptoms and consider bare-spirited the tragedy of God, and instantly
the energy of God will be in you. "Look unto Me," pay attention to
the objective Source and the subjective energy will be there. We lose power if
we do not concentrate on the right thing. The effect of the Cross is salvation,
sanctification, healing, etc., but we are not to preach any of these, we are to
preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The proclaiming of Jesus will do its own
work. Concentrate on God’s centre in your preaching, and though your crowd may
apparently pay no attention, they can never be the same again. If I talk my own
talk, it is of no more importance to you than your talk is to me; but if I talk
the truth of God, you will meet it again and so will I. We have to concentrate
on the great point of spiritual energy – the Cross, to keep in contact with
that centre where all the power lies, and the energy will be let loose. In
holiness movements and spiritual experience meetings the concentration is apt
to be put not on the Cross of Christ, but on the effects of the Cross.
The feebleness of the churches is being
criticized to-day, and the criticism is justified. One reason for the
feebleness is that there has not been this concentration of spiritual energy;
we have not brooded enough on the tragedy of Calvary or on the meaning of
Redemption.
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