New Blog Post: My Utmost for His Highest – Oswald Chambers - "The Eternal God"

Genesis 22:15-17 ESV And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.”

Abraham, at this point, has reached the place where he is in touch with the very nature of God. He now understands the reality of God. 

                                                My goal is God Himself…

                                                At any cost, dear Lord, by any road.

“At any cost …. by any road” means submitting to God’s way of bringing us to the goal.

There is no possibility of questioning God when He speaks, to His own nature in me. Prompt obedience is the only result. When Jesus says, “Come,” I simply come; when He says, “Let go,” I let go; when He says, “Trust God in this matter,” I trust. This work of obedience is the evidence that the nature of God is in me.

God’s revelation of Himself to me is influenced by my character, not by God’s character.

                                                “Tis because I am ordinary,

                                                Thy ways so often look ordinary to me.

It is through the discipline of obedience that I get to the place where Abraham was and I see who God is. God will never be real to me until I come face to face with Him in Jesus Christ. Then I will know and can boldly proclaim, “In a world, my God, there is none but Thee, there is none but Thee.”

The promises of God are of no value to us until, through obedience, we come to understand the nature of God. We may read some things in the Bible every day of the year and they may mean nothing to us. Then, because we have been obedient to God in some small detail, we suddenly see what God means and His nature is instantly opened to us. “All the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen. . . “ (2 Corinthians 1:20). Our “Yes” must be born of obedience; when by obedience we ratify a promise of God saying, “Amen,” or, “So be it.” That promise becomes ours.