Day 2 - Monday | Daily Devotions | My Utmost for His Highest |

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 August 19th

Self-consciousness

Come unto Me. Matthew 11:28.

God means that we live a fully-orbed life in Christ Jesus, but there are times when that life is attacked from the outside, and we tumble into a way of introspection that we thought had gone. Self-consciousness is the first thing that will upset the completeness of the life in God, and self-consciousness continually produces wrestling. Self-consciousness is not a sin; it may be made by a nervous temperament or a sudden dumping down into new circumstances. It is never God’s will that we should be anything less than absolutely complete in Him. Anything that disturbs rest in Him must be cured at once, and it is not cured by being ignored but by coming to Jesus Christ. If we go to Him and ask Him to produce Christ-consciousness, He will always do it until we learn to abide in Him.

Never allow the dividing up of your life in Christ to remain without facing it. Beware of leakage, of the dividing up of your life by the influence of friends or circumstances; beware of anything that will split up your oneness with Him and make you see yourself separately. Nothing is so important as to keep right spiritually. The excellent solution is the simple one—“Come unto Me.” These words test the depth of our reality intellectually, morally, and spiritually. In every degree we are not real, we will dispute rather than come.


 Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year (Grand Rapids, MI: Oswald Chambers Publications; Marshall Pickering, 1986).


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