"Many of us who call ourselves Christians are not devoted to Jesus Christ. No man on earth has this passionate love to the Lord Jesus unless the Holy Ghost has imparted it to him. We may admire Him, we may respect Him and reverence Him, but we cannot love Him." (Oswald Chambers)
Admiration, Respect and Reverence, three words that I would use to describe my relationship to Jesus, and Chambers pegs my attempts at true discipleship. He must be writing to me this morning, because I am convicted of my puny attempt to be a Christian.
A few days back, I was also convicted of not giving God the best of my life, only the crumbs, so I determined to not leave my reading and writing to the last part of the day, or whenever I could have the time to get around to it. I prayed that I would make this study time a priority and get up and do it early. I even asked God to wake me up in order not to have any excuse, and all this week this has happened.
Then I read Chambers today, and through the words on the page, it seems that God is looking right at me and pointing, saying "this is your life".
Now I want to look around me and say that I don't see anyone living that much different than I do, but the standards of God are not relative to the ways of others. They are His and His alone, and I fall woefully short.
So do I just feel good that I have written these thoughts down and then go out and live my life in the same old way today, or what?
God has pointed this out to me, and now I need Him to put me right. I need help.
Help!
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