Re: Has it ever seemed that you have been alone in the world except for ...
It nudged my memory, of recent readings from Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest.
September 27's observations (entitled The "Go" of Renunciation) are about Jesus's response to the fellow who said "Lord, I will follow You wherever You go." (Luke 9:57). Regarding verse 58, He writes, "These words destroy the argument of serving Jesus Christ because it is a pleasant thing to do. And the strictness of the rejection that He demands of me allows for nothing to remain in my life but my Lord, Myself, and a sense of desperate hope. He says that I must let everyone else come or go, and that I must be guided solely by my relationship to Him. And He says, '...the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.'"
The next day's devotional expands upon this. "Our Lord never places anyone's personal holiness above everything else when He calls a disciple. Jesus' primary consideration is my absolute annihilation of my right to myself and my identification with Him, which means having a relationship with Him in which there are no other relationships."
These two devotionals really hit home with me last month, as I've been struggling through an intense period of getting RID of things in my life that weigh me down and obstruct my view of our Lord. Lots to think about there....and this thread seems spot on in going with the Spirit's flow.
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September 27's observations (entitled The "Go" of Renunciation) are about Jesus's response to the fellow who said "Lord, I will follow You wherever You go." (Luke 9:57). Regarding verse 58, He writes, "These words destroy the argument of serving Jesus Christ because it is a pleasant thing to do. And the strictness of the rejection that He demands of me allows for nothing to remain in my life but my Lord, Myself, and a sense of desperate hope. He says that I must let everyone else come or go, and that I must be guided solely by my relationship to Him. And He says, '...the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.'"
The next day's devotional expands upon this. "Our Lord never places anyone's personal holiness above everything else when He calls a disciple. Jesus' primary consideration is my absolute annihilation of my right to myself and my identification with Him, which means having a relationship with Him in which there are no other relationships."
These two devotionals really hit home with me last month, as I've been struggling through an intense period of getting RID of things in my life that weigh me down and obstruct my view of our Lord. Lots to think about there....and this thread seems spot on in going with the Spirit's flow.
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