Wednesday, September 28, 2005

God speaks you know and I can wrestle and complain about it but I want to hear...I don't want to have my heart become calloused and my ears and eyes to close up.....I want to hear, I SAY that over and over and then when I do........I want to push a 'pause' button and say...ooh I'll come back to that, catch it later. But there's the problem isn't it, my stubborn and rebellious nature. God is speaking and I better start listening.......


September 28, 2005
Oswald Chambers

THE "GO" OF UNCONDITIONAL IDENTIFICATION
One thing thou lackest: . . come, take up the cross, and follow Me. Mark 10:21

The rich young ruler had the master passion to he perfect. When he saw Jesus Christ, he wanted to be like Him. Our Lord never puts personal holiness to the fore when He calls a disciple; He puts absolute annihilation of my right to myself and identification with Himself - a relationship with Himself in which there is no other relationship. Luke 14:26 has nothing to do with salvation or sanctification, but with unconditional identification with Jesus Christ. Very few of us know the absolute "go" of abandonment to Jesus.
"Then Jesus beholding him loved him." The look of Jesus will mean a heart broken for ever from allegiance to any other person or thing. Has Jesus ever looked at you? The look of Jesus transforms and transfixes. Where you are "soft" with God is where the Lord has looked at you. If you are hard and vindictive, insistent on your own way, certain that the other person is more likely to be in the wrong than you are, it is an indication that there are whole tracts of your
nature that have never been transformed by His gaze.
"One thing thou lackest . . ." The only "good thing" from Jesus Christ's point of view is union with Himself and nothing in between.
"Sell whatsoever thou hast . ." I must reduce myself until I am a mere conscious man, I must fundamentally renounce possessions of all kinds, not to save by soul (only one thing saves a man - absolute reliance upon Jesus Christ) - but in order to follow Jesus. "Come, and follow Me." And the road is the way He went.

Didja catch the date.....today and all my whining about SURRENDER....I hear you Father.....I hear you......
And see I believe this.....btw from today as well... If we get our information from the biblical material there is no oubt that the Christian life is dancing, leaping, daring life. ~ Eugene Peterson
So you might ask...what the heck is the problem????

2 comments:

Melissa said...

Well, I was catching up on your blog, and this last entry really struck me. I started to write most of it down and then decided to just print it out.

Becky, thank you for your insight...I will comment further on my blog on this topic at a later date.

(Your daughter's blog is so refreshing...like mother like daughter!)

so i go said...

well, now.. that was an awesome post, my wrestling blogger friend.

loved the whole 'go' thing, as only a reluctant so i go-y kind of guy can.

chow for now.. enjoy your weekend.