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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Not Simply to the Call Be True...



Wow! The devotions from the past few days
(from My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers)
are challenging mental/spiritual comfort-zones!








Not to the call be true but faithful to the One who calls
Who tries the crux of motive to expose prideful pitfalls
And test our allegiance to the Master in Command
Repentance and obedience must needs go hand in hand

The Giver and the Taker of love’s sacred charge abides
Where fear’s dark breakers roll His holy Sovereignty presides
How wily is the Tempter, but he never overtakes
A very present Helper who never leaves or forsakes

The happiness we hunger for cannot be found until
We humbly and wholly adore He who bids us be still
And know that He is God; He who is ruler over all
Is He who calls; to Him be true, not simply to the call

© Janet Martin

Ps.46

God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.[c]

4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.
5 God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.
6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

7 The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.

8 Come and see what the Lord has done,
the desolations he has brought on the earth.
9 He makes wars cease
to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields[d] with fire.
10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

11 The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.

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