Out of Retirement
I sort of decided to retire this blog around Easter. But! Now, I have decided to come out of blog-retirement. I think my two main problems have been time, of which there seems to be little, and lack of assurance that anybody out there reads any of this stuff.
As for the first--time--every day still has twenty-four hours in it. We choose what we will spend our time doing; that’s called prioritizing, I tell myself.
The second, I must confess, is a selfish consideration. The Bible says believers must spread God’s word. It doesn’t say we should talk about God if people are listening. It just says do it. So I will start up again, doing it. Also, I have learned that at least one person reads it from time to time. So here’s something I want to point out today:
God is always amazing to me, even if I expect him to be performing miracles--which I do and he does. Oswald Chambers points out in today’s My Utmost for His Highest entry, July 11, that
A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances simply happen at random, nor does he ever think of his life as being divided into the secular and the sacred. He sees every situation in which he finds himself as the means of obtaining a greater knowledge of Jesus Christ, and he has an attitude of unrestrained abandon and total surrender about him.
In modern words, I think we could say Oswald means that God arranges circumstances in our lives and works through those circumstances to bring us to a closer relationship with himself through Jesus.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!
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