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Post by nightingale on Dec 11, 2005 21:27:30 GMT -5
Another Devotional by Oswald Chambers' Isaiah 6:1 "In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord".... Our soul's history with God is frequently the history of the "passing of the hero." Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged. Take it personally: In the year that the one who stood to me for all that God was, died---I gave up everything? I became ill? I got disheartened? or--I saw the Lord? My vision of God depends upon the state of my character. Character determines revelation. Before I can say" I saw also the Lord," there must be something corresponding to God in my character. Until I am born again and begin to see the Kingdom of God, I see along the line of my prejudices only; I need the surgical operation of external events and an internal purification. It must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever. "In all the world there is none but thee, my God, there is none but thee" Keep paying the price. Let God see that your are willing to live up to the vision.
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Post by benshelpmeet on Dec 12, 2005 11:36:25 GMT -5
Thank you!
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Post by sojourner on Dec 12, 2005 13:14:02 GMT -5
I love how he put that: "It must be God first, God second, and God third, untiil the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever."
Too often, and i'm guilty of it myself, we think God has to be first...and when He is, we stop right there. NO! We don't need to stop there! God should be our everything, and our all in all...so to stop with God being first is dangerously walking close to having other gods; because those other "gods" can become a close 2nd.
Just my two cents...thanks for the thought.
in HIS grip bro bobby
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