a wise guy

My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers)
February 29, 2008


He said, ’Lord, that I may receive my sight’ —Luke 18:41

...Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord Himself. Don’t deify common sense. To sit calmly by, instead of creating a disturbance, serves only to deify our common sense. When Jesus asks what we want Him to do for us about the incredible problem that is confronting us, remember that He doesn’t work in common sense ways, but only in supernatural ways.

...If it is an impossibility, it is the very thing for which we have to ask. ...And God will do what is absolutely impossible.

...God will do it if you will ask Him. But you have to come to the point of believing Him to be almighty. We find faith by not only believing what Jesus says, but, even more, by trusting Jesus Himself. If we only look at what He says, we will never believe. Once we see Jesus, the impossible things He does in our lives become as natural as breathing. The agony we suffer is only the result of the deliberate shallowness of our own heart. We won’t believe; we won’ t let go by severing the line that secures the boat to the shore— we prefer to worry.