It is true that a lot of the times when I read what Oswald Chambers has to say on a given day, especially when it relates to Christian service, that I have the tendency to look back at my life and analyze what I have done in the past and my motives for so doing. Indeed as he says today:
"It is inconceivable, but true nevertheless, that saints are not bringing every thought [and project] into captivity, but are simply doing work for God that has been instigated by their own human nature, and has not been made spiritual through determined discipline."
I can see my life of service as not being devoid of self-seeking honor in a lot of cases, and I think it is good to realize this. Perhaps that might keep me from making that mistake again.
But there is a danger in all of that introspection. I can see myself as the imperfect soul that I am, dwelling on all the impure motives of service, and paralyze myself from any further Christian activity. After all I don't want to make the same mistake again, do I?
When God points out my sins and shortcomings, it is not for me to dwell there and wallow in the "woe is me" part of my life. He wants me to grow, and that growing involves doing.
Does the baseball player refuse to swing the bat because he once hit into a double play?
Do I sit in my chair and write my blog and turn down opportunities to serve Jesus? When I feel His call, I can't just stand there with the bat on my shoulder, can I?
From somewhere a voice comes, "Dummy, swing the bat!"
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