Oswald Chambers: Joy - Strength In The LordSample

Sin, suffering, and sanctification are not problems of the mind, but facts of life—mysteries that awaken all other mysteries until the heart rests in God. Oh, the unspeakable joy of knowing that God reigns, that He is our Father, and that the clouds are but “the dust of His feet”! Religious life is based and built up and matured on primal implicit trust, transfigured by Love; the explicit statement of that life can only be made by the spectator, never by the saint.

Lord, how little nourishment I have been giving to the indwelling Christ in me; O Lord, forgive me. Fill me with the ample sense of Your forgiveness that I may not only joy in Your salvation, but be filled with Your Spirit for the work here.

Reflection Questions: Do the difficulties, inequities, and mysteries of life cause me to give up in despair or convince me to trust the One who sends me out to proclaim the message that Love will conquer sin and suffering?

Quotations taken from Christian Discipline and Knocking at God’s Door, © Discovery House Publishers