The Authority of Truth

The Authority of Truth

"Draw near to God and He will draw near to you." James 4:8

This morning I read this powerful word written by Oswald Chambers in his classic work, MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST. It cut right to the heart of what I needed to hear from the Lord this morning.

It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual— you cannot act for him. It must be his own deliberate act, but the evangelical message should always lead him to action. Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where he was previously. But once he acts, he is never the same. 

It is the apparent folly of the truth that stands in the way of hundreds who have been convicted by the Spirit of God. Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.

When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will, not necessarily externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood— work it into your life. The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is liberated the second he acts and God’s almighty power is available on his behalf. We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again. Then we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no business going back. When we are confronted with such a word of truth from our redeeming Lord, we must move directly to transact business with Him. “Come to Me . . .” (Matthew 11:28). His word come means “to act.” Yet the last thing we want to do is come. But everyone who does come knows that, at that very moment, the supernatural power of the life of God invades him. The dominating power of the world, the flesh, and the devil is now paralyzed; not by your act, but because your act has joined you to God and tapped you in to His redemptive power.

Is there some area of your life where God has been speaking to you and you have refused to obey? Is there an area of sin to renounce or forsake? A brother or sister you need to forgive? Only YOU know HE is asking you to do. Are you willing to be obedient and act on the truth? -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's Keswick

Digging Deeper: Proverbs 5; Jeremiah 34-36; Hebrews 2

Dig This Quote: The man who measures things by the circumstances of the hour is filled with fear; the man who sees Jehovah enthroned and governing has no panic. G. Campbell Morgan

Determined Digging: Level 1: John 8:31-32; Isaiah 40:28-31

Determined Praying: True prayer is the attitude and resultant expression of one who has come to know God as Father. -- Herbert Carson