'My Utmost For His Highest' devotional for June 19

Busy "doing" things for the Lord? Your busyness could be the enemy of
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My Utmost for His Highest - June 19
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> Title: Service Of Passionate Devotion
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> Key Verse: Lovest thou Me? ... Feed My sheep.
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> John 21:16
>
> Jesus did not say - Make converts to your way of thinking, but look
> after
> My sheep, see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Me. We
> count as
> service what we do in the way of Christian work; Jesus Christ calls
> service what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is
> based
> on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on adherence to a belief or a
> creed. "If
> any man come to Me and hate not…, he cannot be My disciple."
> There is
> no argument and no compulsion, but simply - If you would be My
> disciple,
> you must be devoted to Me. A man touched by the Spirit of God suddenly
> says - "Now I see Who Jesus is," and that is the source of devotion.
>
> To-day we have substituted credal belief for personal belief, and
> that is
> why so many are devoted to causes and so few devoted to Jesus Christ.
> People do not want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He
> started. Jesus Christ is a source of deep offence to the educated
> mind of
> to-day that does not want Him in any other way than as a Comrade. Our
> Lord's first obedience was to the will of His Father, not to the
> needs of
> men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of His obedience to the
> Father. If I am devoted to the cause of humanity only, I will soon be
> exhausted and come to the place where my love will falter; but if I
> love
> Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity
> though men
> treat me as a door-mat. The secret of a disciple's life is devotion to
> Jesus Christ, and the characteristic of the life is its
> unobtrusiveness.
> It is like a corn of wheat, which falls into the ground and dies, but
> presently it will spring up and alter the whole landscape (John
> 12:24).
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> Taken from 'My Utmost for His Highest', by Oswald Chambers. � l935 b
> y Dodd
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