“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.
I am reminded of a verses read, repeated over and over again during my early days. Mathew 6 :33, " Seek ye first the....added unto you" The context shows that the words point to the “seeking” of prayer, rather than of act, though the latter meaning is, of course, not excluded. What is thus to be sought is “the kingdom of God” (the change from the less personal “kingdom of heaven” is significant), the higher spiritual life in its completeness, for ourselves and for others. One who seeks for this may well be content to leave all else in his Father’s hands. Thanks for Sharing Sir, meant alot to me.
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