MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 14 AUGUST 2024 BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Read My Utmost for His Highest 14 August 2024 (Oswald Chambers Devotional) Wednesday Inspirational Message.
TOPIC: Discipline
Do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you. — Hebrews 12:5
It’s very easy to quench the Spirit. We do it by despising the discipline of the Lord and by losing heart when he rebukes us. If we have a shallow experience of salvation and sanctification, we mistake the shadow for the reality when God disciplines us. We say, “Oh, that must be the voice of the devil.”
Never quench the Spirit, and do not despise him when he says to you, “Do not be blind about this thing anymore. You aren’t where you thought you were. Up until now I haven’t been able to reveal it to you, but I reveal it now.” When the Spirit disciplines you like this, let him have his way. Let him get you rightly related to God.
“Do not lose heart when he rebukes you.” We get into a bad mood with God and say, “Oh well, I can’t help it. I prayed about it, and it still didn’t turn out right. I’m through trying.” Think what would happen if we took this attitude about anything else in life!
Am I prepared to let God grip me by his power and do a work in me that is worthy of him? Sanctification isn’t my idea of what I want God to do for me; it’s God’s idea of what he wants to do for me. God has to bring me to the attitude of mind and spirit where I will let him sanctify me wholly, no matter the cost.
We all have the trick of saying—If only I were not where I am!—If only I had not got the kind of people I have to live with! If our faith or our religion does not help us in the conditions we are in, we have either a further struggle to go through, or we had better abandon that faith and religion.
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Oswald Chambers was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher who was aligned with the Holiness Movement. He is best known for the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest