Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Oswald ChambersRead
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes finding peace and strength in faith, regardless of life's circumstances.
Oswald Chambers highlights the importance of maintaining a connection with Jesus in every situation we face in life. By learning to abide in Him, we cultivate trust and resilience, allowing our faith to ground us no matter the external challenges we encounter.
In practice
In a sermon about finding strength in difficult times.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.
I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.
Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being 'established' in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.
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