Oswald Chambers At His Best

I recommend reading Oswald Chambers. His little book, Approved Unto God, should be required reading for every believer, especially those of us who preach and teach God's Word. Below is one of the most powerful paragraphs I have read in some time from that little book.

"Nowadays the great passion is the passion for souls, but you never find that passion mentioned in the New Testament, it is the passion for Christ that the New Testament mentions. It is not a passion for men that saves men; a passion for men breaks human hearts. The passion for Christ inwrought by the Holy Ghost goes deeper down than the deepest agony the world, the flesh, and the devil can produce. It goes straight down to where our Lord went, and the Holy Ghost works out, not in thinking, but in living, this passion for Christ. Whenever the passion for souls obscures the passion for Christ, Satan has come in as an angel of light."

The self-centered, man-centered, tell-me-something-I-can-use, church culture in our nation needs a transfusion of Oswald Chambers to put us back on course; back on The Way, The Truth, and The Life. Focusing upon the blessings I can get rather than the One from Whom all blessings flow is to focus upon the wrong thing. Fix your eyes on Jesus and then whatever God gives you will be received for the blessing it is. In fact, you will be so enamored with Christ, you won't even realize you are being made holy!

Like Paul, determine to know nothing else save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Approved Unto God, highly recommended reading.