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August 1, 2008
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT HIS WAYS
He comes where He commands us to leave.
"When Jesus had made an end of commanding his disciples,
he departed thence to teach and to preach in their
cities."
Matthew 11:1
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=mt+11:1+&sr=1
If when God said "Go," you stayed because you were so concerned about
your people at home, you robbed them of the teaching and preaching of
Jesus Christ Himself. When you obeyed and left all consequences to
God, the Lord went into your city to teach; as long as you would not
obey, you were in the way. Watch where you begin to debate and to put
what you call duty in competition with your Lord's commands. "I know
He told me to go, but they my duty was here;" that means you do not
believe that Jesus means what He says.
He teaches where He instructs us not to.
"Master,...let us make three tabernacles."
Are we playing the spiritual amateur providence in other lives? Are
we so noisy in our instruction of others that God cannot get anywhere
near them? We have to keep our mouths shut and our spirits alert. God
wants to instruct us in regard to His Son, He wants to turn our times
of prayer into mounts of transfiguration, and we will not let Him.
When we are certain of the way God is going to work, He will never
work in that way any more.
He works where He sends us to wait.
"Tarry ye...until . . ." Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait
in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you!
Are we detached enough from our own spiritual hysterics to wait on
God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what
we are told.
These are phases of His ways we rarely recognize.
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