"God called Jesus Christ to what seemed absolute disaster. And Jesus Christ called His disciples to see Him put to death, leading every one of them to the place where their hearts were broken." ~Oswald Chambers
I don't know about you, but for what I have been going through this week, the conversations I have been having with my husband alongside my prayers and cries to Jesus, this hit the nail on the head.
God , through His son Christ Jesus, by the power of His Holy
Spirit has again met me where I am at, reminded me of His grace, His perfect
love and sacrifice and has once again encouraged me to abide in Him, to trust
Him and to be all about His good and perfect will.
I am always amazed how He brings the right Bible passage at
the right time. It's like He wrote it all down just for me...oh wait, He did!
And He did it for you too, just for YOU!!
May you be encouraged by God's Word in Luke 18:31-34 today.
And may the devotion by Oswald Chambers add a bit of insight for you as well.
God Bless!~ Mia
Luke 18:31-34
Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time
31 Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going
up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son
of Man will be fulfilled. 32 He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They
will mock him, insult him and spit on him; 33 they will flog him and kill him.
On the third day he will rise again. 34 The disciples did not understand any of
this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was
talking about.
The Bewildering Call of God~Oswald Chambers
God called Jesus Christ to what seemed absolute disaster. And Jesus Christ called His disciples to see Him put to death, leading every one of them to the place where their hearts were broken. His life was an absolute failure from every standpoint except God’s. But what seemed to be failure from man’s standpoint was a triumph from God’s standpoint, because God’s purpose is never the same as man’s purpose.
This bewildering call of God comes into our lives as well. The call of God can never be understood absolutely or explained externally; it is a call that can only be perceived and understood internally by our true inner-nature. The call of God is like the call of the sea— no one hears it except the person who has the nature of the sea in him. What God calls us to cannot be definitely stated, because His call is simply to be His friend to accomplish His own purposes. Our real test is in truly believing that God knows what He desires. The things that happen do not happen by chance— they happen entirely by the decree of God. God is sovereignly working out His own purposes.
If we are in fellowship and oneness with God and recognize that He is taking us into His purposes, then we will no longer strive to find out what His purposes are. As we grow in the Christian life, it becomes simpler to us, because we are less inclined to say, “I wonder why God allowed this or that?” And we begin to see that the compelling purpose of God lies behind everything in life, and that God is divinely shaping us into oneness with that purpose. A Christian is someone who trusts in the knowledge and the wisdom of God, not in his own abilities. If we have a purpose of our own, it destroys the simplicity and the calm, relaxed pace which should be characteristic of the children of God.
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