The following excerpt from Oswald Chambers speaks to me as I prepare to close this year and embark on another. Perhaps it will connect with you as well:
"Becore we choose to follow God’s will, a crisis must develop in our lives. This happens because we tend to be unresponsive to God’s gentler nudges. He brings us to the place where He asks us to be our utmost for Him and we begin to debate. He then providentially produces a crisis where we have to decide—for or against. That moment becomes a great crossroads in our lives. If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably. Lord, the range of Your power, the touch of Your grace, the breathing of Your Spirit—how I long for these to bring me face to face with You. Forgive my tardiness; it takes me so long to awaken to some things."
The hard part definitely seems to be the letting go. I rarely struggle with "straining for that which lies ahead", but I often wrestle with the "forgetting that which lies behind." May God grant to each of us courage sufficient for the transaction.
(Dr. Dane Fowlkes, pastor)
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