I've been reading "My Utmost for His Highest" as my devotional this year, and it's been really, really good, so I thought I'd share a few quotes from today's reading. Actually, if you're one of those people who likes to look things up, it's really November 10th's reading, I'm a bit behind. :P
If you seek great things for yourself, thinking, "God has called me for this and for that," you barricade God from using you. As long as you maintain your own personal interests and ambitions, you cannot be completely aligned or identified with God's interests. This can only be accomplished by giving up all of your personal plans once and for all, and by allowing God to take you directly into His purpose for the world. You understanding of your ways must also be surrendered, because they are now the ways of the Lord.
...I should never say, "Lord, this causes me such heartache." To talk that way makes me a stumbling block. When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work Hims will in me without any hindrance. He can crush me, exalt me, or do anything else He chooses. He simply asks me to have absolute faith in Him and His goodness. Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world
~Oswald Chambers
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