If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. Godโs purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
Oswald ChambersA practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, โThat man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
Oswald ChambersWe trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
Oswald ChambersThe greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.
Oswald ChambersWe are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
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