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.
Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.
Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.
Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.
Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.
Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
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