Day 4 - Wednesday | Daily Devotions | My Utmost for His Highest |

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 August 14th

Chastening

Despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him. Hebrews 12:5.

It is straightforward to quench the Spirit; we do it by despising the Lord's chastening and fainting when He rebukes us. If we have only a shallow experience of sanctification, we mistake the shadow for the reality, and when the Spirit of God begins to check, we say, ‘Oh, that must be the devil.’

Never question SpiritSpirit, and do not despise Him when He says, ' Don’t be blind on this point anymore; you are not where you thought you were. Up to the present, I have not been able to reveal it to you, but I reveal it now.’ When the Lord chastens you like that, let Him have His way. Let Him relate you rightly to God.

“Nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him.” We get into sulks with God and say—‘Oh well, I can’t help it; I did pray, and things did not turn out right, and I am going to give it all up.’ Think what would happen if we talked like this in any other domain of life!

Am I prepared to let God grip me by His power and do a work in me worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of minSpiritspirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly.


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


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