Lord,
I will follow You, but . . . —Luke 9:61
Oswald
Chambers
I’ve
just started to read a book called , “
Follow Me” by David Platt, David quotes this in the above book, it’s from “ My utmost for His Highest” by
Oswald Chambers.
Suppose
God tells you to do something that is an enormous test of your common sense,
totally going against it. What will you do? Will you hold back? If you get into
the habit of doing something physically, you will do it every time you are
tested until you break the habit through sheer determination. And the same is
true spiritually. Again and again you will come right up to what Jesus wants,
but every time you will turn back at the true point of testing, until you are
determined to abandon yourself to God in total surrender. Yet we tend to say,
“Yes, but— suppose I do obey God in this matter, what about . . . ?” Or we say,
“Yes, I will obey God if what He asks of me doesn’t go against my common sense,
but don’t ask me to take a step in the dark.”
Jesus
Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have
placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever
going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk
everything by his leap in the dark. In the spiritual realm, Jesus Christ
demands that you risk everything you hold on to or believe through common
sense, and leap by faith into what He says. Once you obey, you will immediately
find that what He says is as solidly consistent as common sense.
By
the test of common sense, Jesus Christ’s statements may seem mad, but when you
test them by the trial of faith, your findings will fill your spirit with the
awesome fact that they are the very words of God. Trust completely in God, and
when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see
that you take it. We act like pagans in a crisis— only one out of an entire
crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.
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