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 MAKE a HABIT of HAVING no HABITS by Oswald Chambers


"For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful." 2 Peter 1:8 (R.V.)

When we begin to form a habit we are conscious of it. There are times when we are conscious of becoming virtuous and patient and godly, but it is only a stage; if we stop there we shall get the strut of the spiritual prig. The right thing to do with habits is to lose them in the life of the Lord, until every habit is so practised that there is no conscious habit at all. Our spiritual life continually resolves into introspection because there are some qualities we have not added as yet. Ultimately the relationship is to be a completely simple one.

Your god may be your little Christian habit, the habit of prayer at stated times, or the habit of Bible reading. Watch how your Father will upset those times if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes - I can't do that just now, I am praying; it is my hour with God. No, it is your hour with your habit. There is a quality that is lacking in you. Recognize the defect and then look for the opportunity of exercising yourself along the line of the quality to be added.

Love means that there is no habit visible, you have come to the place where the habit is lost, and by practice you do the thing unconsciously. If you are consciously holy, there are certain things you imagine you cannot do, certain relationships in which you are far from simple; that means there is something to be added. The only supernatural life is the life the Lord Jesus lived, and He was at home with God anywhere. Is there anywhere where you are not at home with God? Let God press through in that particular circumstance until you gain Him, and life becomes the simple life of a child.


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 Re: MAKE a HABIT of HAVING no HABITS by Oswald Chambers

We find that in the "becoming" there are many snares. It it true that any focus beside the will of God in Christ Jesus may draw us away from Him. And it is a curious balance we walk as He leads us home. And yet, something rings in my soul as I typed this. In all things Christ, to the Glory of the Father in Heaven.

Can a blind man make his way through the gauntlet of this world? Is it not necessary for the One who sees to keep calling, shielding, and healing as that blind man stumbles forward? What man among us knows the way to the place we've never seen?

It is good to not miss the mark. But I wonder how many of us will have hit that mark on our own. God will lead he who calls out for help. And, indeed, it would be so very plesant if we will learn to wear the garment of love with no habit visable.

Just today, I found myself at odds with another. After some "ranting" in private with the Lord, He showed me that it was not me the other was attacking. It was the Lord in me what was being attacked. So the question came back to me, "why take offence at what was not directed at you?" If he who drinks wine from a jar critizes the wine, should the jar take offence?

By His Grace.


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 Re: MAKE a HABIT of HAVING no HABITS by Oswald Chambers

Our great and awesome God has taken care of everything. It is in our trying to improve on what He has created that everything falls apart.

Recently I discovered raw milk. When you let the milk set for a little while, the cream separates from the milk - it floats to the top. If you skim off this cream, and shake it around for a bit, it turns to butter - and it is the sweetest butter that I have ever tasted. Now what could be more simple than that? No special additives, no special processes. You just shake it. And did I mention how wonderful the milk was? Straight from the cow - who would have imagined.

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