COME TO JESUS ...

COME TO JESUS ...

"Come to me ..." Matthew 11:28

Today's reading from Oswald Chambers socked me right between the eyes
...

"Isn't it humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of
the things about which we will not come to Jesus Christ. If you want to
know how real you are, test yourself by these words - "Come to Me ..."

In every dimension in which you are not real, you will argue or evade
the issue altogether rather than come; you will go through sorrow rather
than come; and you will do anything rather than come the last lap of the
race seemingly unspeakable foolishness and say, 'Just as I am, I come.'
As long as you have even the least bit of spiritual disrespect, it will
always reveal itself in the fact that you are expecting God to tell you
to do something very big and yet all He is telling you to do is "Come to
me ..."

"Come to me ..." When you hear those words, you will KNOW that something
must happen IN you before you can come. The Holy Spirit will show you
WHAT you have to do, and it will involve ANYTHING that will uproot
WHATEVER is preventing you from getting through to Jesus. And you will
never get any further until you are willing to do THAT very thing. The
Holy Spirit will search out that ONE IMMOVABLE STRONGHOLD within you,
but He cannot budge it unless YOU are willing to let Him do so.

How often have you come to God with your requests and gone away
thinking, 'I've really received what I wanted THIS time!' And yet you go
away with NOTHING, while all the time God has stood with HIS hands
outstretched not only to take you but also for you to take HIM. Just
think of the invincible, unconquerable, and untiring patience of Jesus,
who lovingly says, 'Come to me ...'" from My Utmost for His Highest

Good words for you and me today. Are you willing to COME TO HIM today?

Great quote: "Every time I obey, the absolute deity of God is on my
side, so that the grace of God and my natural obedience are in perfect
agreement. Obedience means that I have completely placed my trust in the
atonement, and my obedience is immediately met by the delight of the
supernatural grace of God." - Oswald Chambers