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August 3, 2008
THE BIG COMPELLING OF GOD
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem.
Luke 18:31
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=lu+18:31&sr=1
Jerusalem stands in the life of Our Lord as the place where He
reached the climax of His Father's will. "I seek not Mine own will,
but the will of the Father which hath sent Me." That was the one
dominating interest all through our Lord's life, and the things He
met with on the way, joy or sorrow, success or failure, never
deterred Him from His purpose. "He steadfastly set His face to go to
Jerusalem."
The great thing to remember is that we go up to Jerusalem to fulfil
God's purpose, not our own. Naturally, our ambitions are our own; in
the Christian life we have no aim of our own. There is so much said
to-day about our decisions for Christ, our determination to be
Christians, our decisions for this and that, but in the New Testament
it is the aspect of God's compelling that is brought out. "Ye have
not chosen Me, but I have chosen you." We are not taken up into
conscious agreement with God's purpose, we are taken up into God's
purpose without any consciousness at all. We have no conception of
what God is aiming at, and as we go on it gets more and more vague.
God's aim looks like missing the mark because we are too short
sighted to see what He is aiming at. At the beginning of the
Christian life we have our own ideas as to what God's purpose is - 'I
am meant to go here or there,' 'God has called me to do this special
work'; and we go and do the thing, and still the big compelling of
God remains. The work we do is of no account, it is so much
scaffolding compared with the big compelling of God. "He took unto
Him the twelve," He takes us all the time. There is more than we have
got at as yet.
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