What idea have you of the salvation of your soul? The experience
of salvation means that in your actual life things are really altered,
you no longer look at things as you used to; your desires are new, old
things have lost their power. One of the touchstones of experience is —
Has God altered the thing that matters? If you still hanker after the
old things, it is absurd to talk about being born from above, you are
juggling with yourself. If you are born again, the Spirit of God makes
the alteration manifest in your actual life and reasoning, and when the
crisis comes you are the most amazed person on earth at the wonderful
difference there is in you. There is no possibility of imagining that you did it. It is this complete and amazing alteration that is the evidence that you are a saved soul.
What difference has my salvation and sanctification made? For instance, can I stand in the light of 1 Corinthians 13, or do I have to shuffle? The salvation that is worked out in me by the Holy Ghost emancipates me entirely, and as long as I walk in the light as God is in the light, He sees nothing to censure because His life is working out in every particular, not to my consciousness, but deeper than my consciousness.
Oswald Chambers
On November 9 I referenced Romans 8:26 where we are reminded that even when we don't know "what to pray for as we ought" the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with God the Father. Chambers last sentence in today's excerpt from My Utmost for His Highest, caused me to think about another working of the Holy Spirit.
God is working in all areas of my life. My speech, my actions, my thoughts, but Chambers His workings in my life even transcend my level of consciousness. He is working to conform things in my life of which I am unaware. Actions that offend of which I am unaware. Attitudes I may not know I possess. The very core of my being is up for transformation.
The realization of this should radically affect one's pray life. So much of my prayer life is based on what I see, hear, or know. This person for healing. That missionary for strength. Some improvement in this area. But do I dare ask God to reveal to me those things which are hidden? Do I have the faith and humility to beg God to reveal those dark, filthy corners of my heart which my conscious mind has kept hidden?
Our Heavenly Father already knows those areas. Why not join Him in that knowledge and allow Him to recast those areas also.
What difference has my salvation and sanctification made? For instance, can I stand in the light of 1 Corinthians 13, or do I have to shuffle? The salvation that is worked out in me by the Holy Ghost emancipates me entirely, and as long as I walk in the light as God is in the light, He sees nothing to censure because His life is working out in every particular, not to my consciousness, but deeper than my consciousness.
Oswald Chambers
On November 9 I referenced Romans 8:26 where we are reminded that even when we don't know "what to pray for as we ought" the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with God the Father. Chambers last sentence in today's excerpt from My Utmost for His Highest, caused me to think about another working of the Holy Spirit.
God is working in all areas of my life. My speech, my actions, my thoughts, but Chambers His workings in my life even transcend my level of consciousness. He is working to conform things in my life of which I am unaware. Actions that offend of which I am unaware. Attitudes I may not know I possess. The very core of my being is up for transformation.
The realization of this should radically affect one's pray life. So much of my prayer life is based on what I see, hear, or know. This person for healing. That missionary for strength. Some improvement in this area. But do I dare ask God to reveal to me those things which are hidden? Do I have the faith and humility to beg God to reveal those dark, filthy corners of my heart which my conscious mind has kept hidden?
Our Heavenly Father already knows those areas. Why not join Him in that knowledge and allow Him to recast those areas also.
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