Amazing Devotion!

...taken from Oswald Chambers book, My Utmost for His Highest

The Voice of the Nature of God--January 16th

"I head the voice of the Lord, saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?'" ~Isaiah 6:8

"When we talk abou tthe call of God, we often forget the most important thing, namely the nature of Him who calls. There are many things claling each of us today. Some of these calls will be answered, and other s will not even be heard. The call is the expression of the nature of the One who calls, and we can only recognize the call if that same nature is in us. The call of God is the expression of God's nature, not ours. God povidentially weaves the threads of His call through our lives, and only we can distinguish them. It is the threading of God's voice directly to us over a certain concern, and it is useless to seek another person's opinion of it. Our dealings over the call of God should be kept exclusively between ourselves and Him.

The call of God is not a refletion of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God. But when God brings me into the right relationship with Himself, I will be in the same condition Isaiah was. Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed."
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I hope this enlightens you to a newness of God's work in your life as much as it did me...read it a couple of times until it truly sinks in with you and then act on what God's telling you!!! Fear is NOT of God, and sometimes the scariest things in my life are when God's telling me to move. He will catch you if you'll leap in His faith and NOT your own!