secret places
I have been humming a song for the last few weeks. There are few words of the lyrics I remember, but cant seem to recollect it all.
The words go this way "my life is not my own, my life belongs to Him; I have been purchased by His blood...". My several attempts to google the entire lyrics have been unsuccessful.
Todays reading from "My Utmost" brings me back to this theme...I am not my own!
The passage talks about a "Private life"....a life that we all want to keep to ourselves for ourselves. I have been calling it my "secret life"...and it is that part of me that I do not want to let go of. It seems to be so precious that I don't want my Lord to take hold of it!
But I must...for I am reminded ..that I belong to Him. If God wants to achieve His entire will in me, I must let go all my secret places and my precious moments...even at the cost of a heartbreak!
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Below is today's reading from "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. It is amazing how each word hits me at the places where I get hurt the most!
“You Are Not Your Own”
There is no such thing as a private life, or a place to hide in this world, for a man or woman who is intimately aware of and shares in the sufferings of Jesus Christ. God divides the private life of His saints and makes it a highway for the world on one hand and for Himself on the other. No human being can stand that unless he is identified with Jesus Christ. We are not sanctified for ourselves. We are called into intimacy with the gospel, and things happen that appear to have nothing to do with us. But God is getting us into fellowship with Himself. Let Him have His way. If you refuse, you will be of no value to God in His redemptive work in the world, but will be a hindrance and a stumbling block.
The first thing God does is get us grounded on strong reality and truth. He does this until our cares for ourselves individually have been brought into submission to His way for the purpose of His redemption. Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?
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