Devotional...

Last night, our group spent time in worship and prayer. It was something that was suggested in the morning and we all felt that it was needed. It was a time of just coming together, worshipping God for what He is doing in our lives and also praying to Him for healing, comforting, uniting us all individually and as a group.

It was a relaxing time and this morning, we all felt refreshed and renewed. The three that are sick are feeling much better today. The one’s that are struggling with hurts or confusion, are feeling comforted and God’s peace again. It was a much needed night last night; it was amazing to be a part of it.

This morning, I was reading from my daily devotional (November 10th) and in our morning devotional, we read it and reflected on it. It really hit home to a lot of us, most of us. Here it is:

Fellowship in the Gospel

After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in life is, because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Ghost; He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used His Son for the purpose of our salvation. If you seek great things for yourself – God has called me for this and that – you are putting a barrier to God’s use of you. As long as you have a personal interest in your own character, or any set ambition, you cannot get through into identification with God’s interests. You can only get there by losing forever any idea of yourself and by letting God take you right out into His purpose for the world, and because your goings are of the Lord, you can never understand your ways.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God’s, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say – Lord, this gives me such heartache. To talk in that way makes me a clog. When I stop telling God what I want, He can catch me up for what He wants without let or hindrance. He can crumple me up or exalt me; He can do anything He chooses. He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness. Self-pity is of the devil; if I go off on that line I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world. I have “a world within the world” in which I live, and God will never be able to get me outside it because I am afraid of being frost-bitten.

Taken from “My Utmost for His Highest” by Oswald Chambers.