“Individual effort for God is an
impertinence…” Oswald Chambers.
Oswald Chambers quotes the example of Moses
feeling the burden of his people oppressed by the Egyptians. Trained in
Egyptian ways and educated in the royal household he thought he was uniquely
positioned to be their deliverer. He was driven into the wilderness for forty
years. The fellowship of sheep drove every idea of unique positioning from
his mind. Till God called him into the
position he had for him when a bush caught fire. By this time, every idea of self exaltation
was an alien impertinence.
We tend to be impertinent with God,
assuming roles and missions originating from our worldly ideas of positioning
and platform. All our placards and pennants crash and burn. Then there is that brazen sobering wilderness where God is silent and all we hear is the bleating of
sheep. Our ideas of impertinence and self-dependence fade away. When we learn
daily reliance on God, he calls out to us and commissions us, and then we think
that then is an impertinence!
Daily reliance on God is our sustenance.
Every thing else is an impertinence.
