I leave for Ukraine Monday morning. First I head down to SD tomorrow morning to meet up with everyone. The Haiti team from Oroville Church of the Nazarene leaves tomorrow as well. Most people who will read this know Amy Hayse and all that is going on and I'm sure a lot of the people going to Haiti are hesitant to leave while she is still in the hospital. At least that's how I feel. I know that I don't make a difference at all, but it's a scary situation and being so far away, not being updated on what's going on is going to suck.
This morning I read an entry from My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers called "The Notion of Divine Control" and I want to share it. It is perfect. I should really stop being amazed when God gives me stuff like this because of course he would. But I'm still amazed every time. So I'm just going to copy it word for word because Chambers puts it in a way that I can't.
"The Notion of Divine Control"
"How much mores shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?" Matthew 7:11
Jesus is laying down rules of conduct for those who have his Spirit By the simple argument of these verses He urges us to keep our minds filled with the notion of God's control behind everything, which means that the disciple must maintain an attitude of perfect trust and an eagerness to ask and to seek.
Notion your mind with the idea that God is there. If once the mind is notioned along that line, then when you are in difficulties it is as easy as breathing to remember- Why my Father knows all about it! It is not an effort, it comes naturally when perplexities press. Before, you used to go to this person and, that but now the notion of the Divine control is forming so powerfully in you that you go to God about it. Jesus is laying down the rules of conduct for those who have His Spirit, and it workds on this principle -- God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, why should I worry?
There are times, says Jesus, when God cannot lift the darkness from you, but trust Him. God will appear lie an unkind friend, but He is not; He will appear like an unnatural Father, but He is not; He will appear like an unjust judge, but He is not. Keep the notion of the mind of God behind all things strong and growing. Nothing happens in any particular unless God's will is behind it, therefore you can rest in perfect confidence in Him. Prayers is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural. "Ask, and it shall be given to you"
Perfect for me this morning. Perfect for the situation around me. Perfect for life. God is so good and knows exactly what we need to hear.
