Author	Thread: Oswald Chambers:My utmost for His highest
Admin	Oswald Chambers:My utmost for His highest Posted : 26 Aug, 2011 01:09 PM Hello everyone THE MINISTRY OF THE UNNOTICED "Blessed are the poor in spirit." Matthew 5:3 The New Testament notices things which from our standards do not seem to count. "Blessed are the poor in spirit," literally - Blessed are the paupers - an exceedingly commonplace thing! The preaching of to-day is apt to emphasize strength of will, beauty of character - the things that are easily noticed. The phrase we hear so often, Decide for Christ, is an emphasis on something Our Lord never trusted. He never asks us to decide for Him, but to yield to Him - a very different thing. At the basis of Jesus Christ's Kingdom is the unaffected loveliness of the commonplace. The thing I am blessed in is my poverty. If I know I have no strength of will, no nobility of disposition, then Jesus says - Blessed are you, because it is through this poverty that I enter His Kingdom. I cannot enter His Kingdom as a good man or woman, I can only enter it as a complete pauper. The true character of the loveliness that tells for God is always unconscious. Conscious influence is priggish and un-Christian. If I say - I wonder if I am of any use - I instantly lose the bloom of the touch of the Lord. "He that believeth in me, out of him shall flow rivers of living water." If I examine the outflow, I lose the touch of the Lord. Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring Shalom Post Reply
View Profile History	Oswald Chambers:My utmost for His highest Posted : 26 Aug, 2011 02:24 PM No the actual rendering is whether be spiritual, physical, financial, material. poverty in any form is a curse and the blessing of God takes one from the poverty, to prosperity. Post Reply
View Profile History	Oswald Chambers:My utmost for His highest Posted : 26 Aug, 2011 05:43 PM Passed, You are �putting Words� in God�s Mouth when you write: ��The New Testament notices things which from our standards do not seem to count. "Blessed are the poor in spirit," literally - Blessed are the paupers -�� This Scripture is Speaking about those that are ��poor in spirit,��. It has nothing to do with �Paupers� (the poor�homeless etc.). You �See� what you want to �see�. This might be a �sign� of ADHD�you might want to have this checked out. Peace Post Reply
View Profile History	Oswald Chambers:My utmost for His highest Posted : 26 Aug, 2011 07:51 PM Arch: Do you see yourself as 'Poor,impoverished,without any hope' apart from the saving Grace of GOD in Yeshua. Do you see yourself as a 'WRETCH' as you sing 'Amazong Grace',or are you singing a 'LIE,as do many americans.' Shalom Post Reply