"We have to be so one with God that we do not continually need to ask for guidance. Sanctification means that we are made the children of God, and the natural life of a child is obedience – until he wishes to be disobedient, then instantly there is the intuitive jar."
This statement was one of the most profound and peace-inducing readings that I had ever read.
For so long, I was always trying to figure out God's will, trying to be in the right place at the right time.
It is telling that Oswald Chambers quotes from Genesis 24, in which the servant of Abraham seeks out a wife for his master's son Isaac.
Pastor Joseph Prince writes about the singularity of right place right time, with the first mention of the word (et), which is also featured in Ecclesiastes 3:11 and 9:11.
When we walk in the Spirit, no only do we not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, but He leads us through His Spirit to the right place at the right time.
"The one consistency of the saint is not to a principle, but to the Divine life."
Christ is our life, and He is the one who leads us wherever He will. He removes from us our prejudices and predictions, all of which are based on fear and habit.
"It is easier to be a fanatic than a faithful soul, because there is something amazingly humbling, particularly to our religious conceit, in being loyal to God.It is easier to be a fanatic than a faithful soul, because there is something amazingly humbling, particularly to our religious conceit, in being loyal to God."
We are called to a life of ease, a life of belief, which is manifested in us by our obedience to the one Principle placed in us by Christ Himself.
Oswald Chambers speaks of the Divine Guidance of the Holy Spirit in ephemeral terms, almost abstractedly. The Holy Spirit is a Person, more real than you and I, acting in us and through us, doing for us which we cannot do for ourselves, which is EVERYTHING!
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