God's impeccable timing

We are so priveleged that not only does a holy God save us as sinners but when He brings us into a relationship with Himself that so often He deigns to speak to us in ways which are so appropriate to our circumstances at just the right moment.

A few weeks ago my job was feeling just like I was like the donkey pushing the grindstone going round and round in circles and I was at a low ebb spiritually. At this time God providentially ordained that I would read the entry from Oswald Chambers' devotional My Utmost For His Highest (http://www.myutmost.org) for 15th June. It reads as follows:


June 15th.
GET A MOVE ON
"And beside this . . . add . ." 2 Peter 1:5
You have inherited the Divine nature, says Peter (v.4), now screw your attention down and form habits, give diligence, concentrate. "Add" means all that character means. No man is born either naturally or supernaturally with character, he has to make character. Nor are we born with habits; we have to form habits on the basis of the new life God has put into us. We are not meant to be illuminated versions, but the common stuff of ordinary life exhibiting the marvel of the grace of God. Drudgery is the touchstone of character. The great hindrance in spiritual life is that we will look for big things to do. "Jesus took a towel . . . and began to wash the disciples' feet."
There are times when there is no illumination and no thrill, but just the daily round, the common task. Routine is God's way of saving us between our times of inspiration. Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.
It is the "adding" that is difficult. We say we do not expect God to carry us to heaven on flowery beds of ease, and yet we act as if we did! The tiniest detail in which I obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. If I do my duty, not for duty's sake, but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at the very point of my obedience the whole superb grace of God is mine through the Atonement.

What a good Father the one true God is to speak to clearly to my situation.

Today also I was feeling very sinful and again through Chambers he said:

"If we imagine we have to put on our Sunday moods before we come near to God, we will never come near Him. We must come as we are.

Don't calculate with the evil in view. Does God really mean us to take no account of the evil? "Love . . . taketh no account of the evil." Love is not ignorant of the existence of the evil, but it does not take it in as a calculating factor. "

Oh! Scandalous grace of God that a wretched sinner such as I should be seen as having performed every good deed that Christ ever did and that the blame for all the filth, idolatry, pride, prayerlessness, false piety and all the outpourings of the flesh is laid squarely at the feet of His cross!

Bless our ineffably benificent Creator! The Name above all names!

What a word to a bruised reed!

Forsake your own righteousness and cry out to Him as you are!

Amen.