The Most Secure Thing

12/24/2020

Colossians 3:3 “Your life is hid with Christ in God.”

“We talk as if it were the most precarious thing to live the sanctified life; it is the most secure thing, because it has Almighty God behind it.”

                                                                                                ~Oswald Chambers

When I am reading a non-fiction book, I tend to mark my personal copies up quite a bit. I do this most often when reading devotionals, because they have so much wisdom in them. While looking at today’s chapter of My Utmost, I had to smile because almost the entire passage has an underline, star, brackets, or notations in the margins. It is just jam-packed with good stuff. As I have mentioned before, this is my third time through this particular study. If you do not yet own a copy, I would HIGLY recommend purchasing one. It is not easy, for the faint of heart, or for someone who is looking for Victory Preaching, but it is just so full of wisdom and challenges. 

The quote above was the one I had underlined and put a star next to. It struck me just as hard today as it did when I first made those marks in my copy. The thought, or worse yet, talking point, that being a Christian and surrendering to Jesus is difficult is something I have heard countless times over the years. Not only non-believers say this, but some Christians do as well. We talk about attack and persecution. We make the decision to follow God’s law instead of what society tells us we should do, and feel judged or mocked because of our faith. Sometimes in “unsafe” situations, we hide our light to protect ourselves. I ask about these actions: to what end? If we are truly surrendered to our Savior, then we should fear no one, not even Satan himself, because our security is in Almighty God. This fact alone should give us immeasurable peace.

I wish I could just copy the entirety of today’s study, but instead I will leave you with two additional powerful quotes from Chambers. The first is: “When you really see Jesus, I defy you to doubt Him. When He says—‘Let not you heart be troubled,’ if you see Him I defy you to trouble your mind, it is a moral impossibility to doubt when He is there.” As long as we stay in personal contact with Jesus, we cannot help but know He is there. It was exactly this way when I was recovering from my illness; I was no longer searching for where I thought He should be, He was just there because I opened myself fully to release and surrender. The second is more of a passage: “His words are real. ‘My peace I give unto you’: it is a peace all over from the crown of the head to the sole of the feet, and irrepressible confidence. ‘Your life is hid with Christ in God’ and the imperturbable peace of Jesus Christ is imparted to you.” My last note in the margin is, “faith breeds peace of mind and soul.” I know this has been a lasting truth of my life, and it can be for yours as well if your seek God first in all things.

Again, if you do not yet own My Utmost for His Highest, I strongly recommend getting your hands on a copy. You will not be disappointed.