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"Clouds and darkness surround Him....." (Psalm 97:2)
Today Chambers helps us to accept our confusion and feelings of distance from Him, especially when we may have gotten off track and out of touch with Him. This is the way it was when we first were willing to accept that He is Supreme and In Charge.....even though we don't and can't and never will completely understand that concept while we are living in this world. There comes a time though, when we are willing to give up being a "clanging symbol", tooting our own horns and to listen instead to God and to others (as He speaks through them.....even when we don't agree or like what they are saying....especially then). When this Dangerous Surrender comes, we are finally are able to begin to stop seeing through a morror dimly, with "clouds and darkness" poorly reflecting our own selfish all-about-me images, but begin to see life more clearly. Then we begin to realize that all God ever wanted for us was love, His pure love.
Most of us have heard about this Ideal Love many times as described by Paul in I Corinthians 13. It is read at nearly all the weddings we have attended because it in marriage and family we come the closest to being even motivated to be unselfish. We are born selfish. Little babies only want their needs met, as precious as they are. Growing up means letting go of thinking mostly about our own needs and caring more for the needs of others. Unfortunately, I did not experience that in my first marriage but I did when I became a mother. I knew I would die for either of my babies.....I still would. It was then that I realized that God had done that for me, because He loves me. I revel in that Love. It sustains me. It helps me to see more clearly and to love others as God would have me love them, not in a co-dependent what are you going to do back for me way, but in the secret unselfish way God intended. Ideally I want no credit, no recognition, but it is still a struggle not to expect it. God is not finished with me yet. He has more for me to do in His name, for His glory.
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