Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His
Highest – Thursday, 28 November 2013 “
“The Bounty Of The Destitute”
Being justified freely by His grace. . .(Romans
3:24)
The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an
intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the
revelation which it brings is not palatable. There is a certain pride in man
that will give and give, but to come and accept is another thing. I will give
my life to martyrdom, I will give myself in consecration, I will do anything,
but do not humiliate me to the level of the most hell-deserving sinner and tell
me that all I have to do is to accept the gift of salvation through Jesus
Christ.
We have to realize that we cannot earn or
win anything from God; we must either receive it as a gift or do without it.
The greatest blessing spiritually is the knowledge that we are destitute; until
we get there Our Lord is powerless. He can do nothing for us if we think we are
sufficient of ourselves, we have to enter into His Kingdom through the door of
destitution. As long as we are rich, possessed of anything in the way of pride
or independence, God cannot do anything for us. It is only when we get hungry
spiritually that we receive the Holy Spirit. The gift of the essential nature
of God is made effectual in us by the Holy Spirit, He imparts to us the
quickening life of Jesus, which puts "the beyond" within, and
immediately "the beyond" has come within, it rises up to "the
above," and we are lifted into the domain where Jesus lives. (John 3:5.)
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