March Ramblings

I recently rediscovered Oswald Chambers, and his wonderful little book, "My Utmost for His Highest."  

The book is divided, devotional-style, into short articles - one for each day of the year,

and it takes about one and a half minutes to read each morning.

Can I highly recommend this book to you?  You will be blessed and challenged, I know. 

I certainly am.

Here is yesterday's article:  The Time of Relapse, March 9th

"Will you also go away?" (John 6:67)

A penetrating question.  Our Lord's words come home most when He talks in the most simple way.  We know Who Jesus is, but in spite of that He says - "Will you also go away?"  We have to maintain a venturing attitude toward Him all the time.

"From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him."  They went back from walking with Jesus, not into sin, but they relapsed.  Many today are spending and being spent in work Jesus Christ, but they do not walk with Him.  The one thing God keeps us to steadily is that we may be one with Jesus Christ.  After sanctification the discipline of our spiritual life is along this line.  If God gives a clear and emphatic realization to your soul of what He wants, do not try to keep yourself in that relationship by any particular method, but live a natural life of absolute dependence on Jesus Christ.  Never try to live the life with God on any other line than God's line, and that line is absolute devotion to Him.  The certainty that I do not know - that is the secret of going with Jesus.

Peter only saw in Jesus Someone to minister salvation to him and to the world.  Our Lord wants us to be yoke-fellows with Him.

I know there hasn't been much photography on this photography blog of mine lately, and for that I am sorry.  Soon, I hope...in the meantime, I've been grateful for lengthening, sunny days, the birds singing outside my window, and peaceful, prayerful morning coffees. :)