Living Your Theology

LIVING YOUR THEOLOGY

"Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you ..." John 12:35

Today's devotional is from the pen of Oswald Chambers, August 27th reading MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST ...

"Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moment on the mountaintop with God. If you do not obey the light, it will turn into darkness. 'If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew 6:23) The moment you forsake the matter of sanctification or neglect anything else on which God has given His light, your spiritual life begins to disintegrate within you.
CONTINUALLY BRINGING THE TRUTH OUT INTO YOUR REAL LIFE, WORKING IT OUT INTO EVERY AREA, OR ELSE EVEN THE LIGHT THAT YOU POSSESS WILL ITSELF PROVE TO BE A CURSE.

The most difficult person to deal with is the one who has the prideful, self-satisfaction of a past experience, but it is not working that experience out in his every day life. If you say you are sanctified, SHOW IT! The experience must be so genuine that it shows in your life.

BEWARE OF BELIEF THAT MAKES YOU SELF-INDULGENT or SELF-GRATIFYING; that believe came from the pit of hell itself, regardless of how beautiful it may sound.

Your theology must work itself out, exhibiting itself in your most common everyday relationships. Our Lord said, " ... unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:20) In other words, you must be more moral than the most moral person you know. You may know all ABOUT the doctrine of sanctification, but are you working it out in the everyday issue of your life?

Every detail of your life, whether physical, moral, or spiritual, is to be judged and measured by the standard of the atonement by the Cross of Christ."

God's WORD for YOU: Psalm 120-122; Proverbs 27; 1 Corinthians 9

Great Quote: Beloved, the cross is not made of feathers, or lined with velvet, it is heavy and galling to disobedient shoulders; but it is not an iron cross, though your fears have painted it with iron colours, it is a wooden cross, and a man can carry it, for the Man of sorrows tried the load. Take up your cross, and by the power of the Spirit of God you will soon be so in love with it, that like Moses, you would not exchange the reproach of Christ for all the treasures of Egypt. Remember that Jesus carried it, and it will smell sweetly; remember that it will soon be followed by the crown, and the thought of the coming weight of glory will greatly lighten the present heaviness of trouble.-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon