My Utmost for His Highest in Crewe, England [Great Britain], United Kingdom "Am I Convinced By Christ?” by Oswald Chambers for Tuesday, 30 August 2016

My Utmost for His Highest in Crewe, England [Great Britain], United Kingdom "Am I Convinced By Christ?” by Oswald Chambers for Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Notwithstanding in this rejoice not,… but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.[Luke 10:19,20]
Jesus Christ says, in effect, Don’t rejoice in successful service, but rejoice because you are rightly related to Me. The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you. You never can measure what God will do through you if you are rightly related to Jesus Christ. Keep your relationship right with Him, then whatever circumstances you are in, and whoever you meet day by day, He is pouring rivers of living water through you, and it is of His mercy that He does not let you know it. When once you are rightly related to God by salvation and sanctification, remember that wherever you are, you are put there by God; and by the reaction of your life on the circumstances around you, you will fulfil God’s purpose, as long as you keep in the light as God is in the light.
The tendency to-day is to put the emphasis on service. Beware of the people who make usefulness their ground of appeal. If you make usefulness the test, then Jesus Christ was the greatest failure that ever lived. The lodestar of the saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that counts, not what we do for Him. All that Our Lord heeds in a man’s life is the relationship of worth to His Father. Jesus is bringing many sons to glory.

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS

Always keep in contact with those books and those people that enlarge your horizon and make it possible for you to stretch yourself mentally.[The Moral Foundations of Life, 721 R]

Bible in One Year: Psalms 129-131; 1 Corinthians 11:1-16
Psalms 129:1(0) A song of ascents:

(1) Since I was young they have often attacked me —

let Isra’el repeat it —

2 since I was young they have often attacked me,

but they haven’t overcome me.

3 The plowmen plowed on my back;

wounding me with long furrows.

4 But Adonai is righteous;

he cuts me free from the yoke of the wicked.

5 Let all who hate Tziyon

be thrown back in confusion.

6 Let them be like grass on the roof,

which dries out before it grows up

7 and never fills the reaper’s hands

or the arms of the one who binds sheaves,

8 so that no passer-by says,

“Adonai’s blessing on you!

We bless you in the name of Adonai!”

130:(0) A song of ascents. By David:

(1) Adonai, I call to you from the depths;

2 hear my cry, Adonai!

Let your ears pay attention

to the sound of my pleading.

3 Yah, if you kept a record of sins,

who, Adonai, could stand?

4 But with you there is forgiveness,

so that you will be feared.

5 I wait longingly for Adonai;

I put my hope in his word.

6 Everything in me waits for Adonai

more than guards on watch wait for morning,

more than guards on watch wait for morning.

7 Isra’el, put your hope in Adonai!

For grace is found with Adonai,

and with him is unlimited redemption.

8 He will redeem Isra’el

from all their wrongdoings.

131:(0) A song of ascents. By David:

(1) Adonai, my heart isn’t proud;

I don’t set my sight too high,

I don’t take part in great affairs

or in wonders far beyond me.

2 No, I keep myself calm and quiet,

like a little child on its mother’s lap —

I keep myself like a little child.

3 Isra’el, put your hope in Adonai

from now on and forever!

1 Corinthians 11:1 try to imitate me, even as I myself try to imitate the Messiah.

2 Now I praise you because you have remembered everything I told you and observe the traditions just the way I passed them on to you. 3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is the Messiah, and the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of the Messiah is God. 4 Every man who prays or prophesies wearing something down over his head brings shame to his head, 5 but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled brings shame to her head — there is no difference between her and a woman who has had her head shaved. 6 For if a woman is not veiled, let her also have her hair cut short; but if it is shameful for a woman to wear her hair cut short or to have her head shaved, then let her be veiled. 7 For a man indeed should not have his head veiled, because he is the image and glory of God, and the woman is the glory of man. 8 For man was not made from woman, but woman from man; 9 and indeed man was not created for the sake of the woman but woman for the sake of the man. 10 The reason a woman should show by veiling her head that she is under authority has to do with the angels. 11 Nevertheless, in union with the Lord neither is woman independent of man nor is man independent of woman; 12 for as the woman was made from the man, so also the man is now born through the woman. But everything is from God. 13 Decide for yourselves: is it appropriate for a woman to pray to God when she is unveiled? 14 Doesn’t the nature of things itself teach you that a man who wears his hair long degrades himself? 15 But a woman who wears her hair long enhances her appearance, because her hair has been given to her as a covering. 16 However, if anyone wants to argue about it, the fact remains that we have no such custom, nor do the Messianic communities of God.

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