My Secret Weapon
Everyone needs a secret weapon these days. We all have them, that thing you use to help you get through the day or just need something to remind you of who you are and what are you doing here. It is times like this that I pull out my Secret Weapon.
Oswald Chambers
Please please don’t ask me “Oswald who…” it actually hurts my soul when people do that. If you have to ask then just head on over to http://www.rbc.org/utmost/index.php and find out for yourself. I am of course talking about the devotional “My Utmost for His Highest” and each day you can go the link above and get a short devotional. For some reason this single devotional has had more effect in my life than just about any other book (Aside from the Bible, and did I really need to add that part). Here is just a small part of today’s Entry. (August 13th)
“The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze— so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowship and oneness with God, you will never hear it. The sense of warning and restraint that the Spirit gives comes to us in the most amazingly gentle ways. And if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice, you will quench it, and your spiritual life will be impaired.”
Again, these words come to at a time when I am again wondering just what it is I am supposed to be doing, and what it is that God has planned for me. For the past few months I have felt like I am approaching a turning point or intersection and I know that all to soon I am going to have to choose which way I am going to go. This is a choice that can and will effect myself and those around me, so I want to know I am making the right choice, the choice that God wants me to make. I think it is all to easy to see the choice you want to make and decide that it is “what God is telling you to do”. While it is totally possible that the choice I want to make is the choice God wants me to make, I want to be sure of it. As a christian I feel it is important for us to be constanly be changing and moving. Not changing our beliefs but never standing still, always growing and pushing out of the box… Pressing onward. I never want to look back into the past and find out that the exciting part of being a christian is Behind me. Oswald agrees with me (technically I am the one agreeing with him.)
From the same devotional as above:
“If you get out of the light, you become a sentimental Christian, and live only on your memories, and your testimony will have a hard metallic ring to it. Beware of trying to cover up your present refusal to “walk in the light” by recalling your past experiences when you did “walk in the light””
So what I am getting out of all of this is the need to keep on moving, to keep pressing on. Knowing that while I am living in the fellowship of God I can trust in the fact that one way or another I will recognize His guidance in my life. Yeah now I just have to go out and really do it.
Wish me luck
