What has been like water from the well of Bethlehem to you
recently – love, friendship, spiritual blessing? Then at the peril of your
soul, you take it to satisfy yourself. If you do, you cannot pour it out before
the Lord. You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy
yourself. If you satisfy yourself with a blessing from God, it will corrupt
you; you must sacrifice it, pour it out, do with it what common sense says is
an absurd waste.
How am I to pour out unto the Lord natural love or spiritual
blessing? In one way only – in the determination of my mind. There are certain
acts of other people which one could never accept if one did not know God,
because it is not within human power to repay them. But immediately I say –
This is too great and worthy for me, it is not meant for a human being at all,
I must pour it out unto the Lord, then these things pour out in rivers of
living water all around. Until I do pour these things out before the Lord, they
endanger those I love as well as myself because they will turn to lust. We can
be lustful in things which are not sordid and vile. Love has to get to its
transfiguration point of being poured out unto the Lord.
If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave
you a blessing you clutched it for yourself; whereas if you had poured it out
unto the Lord, you would have been the sweetest person out of heaven. If you
are always taking blessings to yourself and never learn to pour out anything
unto the Lord, other people do not get their horizon enlarged through you.
My Utmost for His Highest;
Oswald Chambers
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First posts always seem to be the most difficult! So I've
decided to break the ice by putting up one of my favorite devotions from Oswald
Chambers - this is the devotion that really shook me a few months ago.
After becoming "bitter and sour", I had come to the
realization that only God can satisfy. And another big 'aha moment' was in the
sentence that states, "Yes, we can be lustful in things that are not
sordid and vile." Even a thing as beautiful as natural love can become an
object of lust!
Anywho. I'm not sure of what kind of adventures this blog will
entail. At first I was going to devote this blog solely to fashion (ha. ha.);
but seeing as this is my first post, who knows what will come about.
Thanks for reading this! (or skimming) - You are officially
getting a sneak peak into the mind of:
Michelle Analyn
P.S. I know
that everyone goes to blogs to look at pictures. so here is one just for you.
:)
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| Capri Sun + Hume Lake + my love next to me = Bliss |
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