Spiritual prig?
"PRIG"
-snob: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
-a person who is annoyingly smug in his or her moral behavior, attitudes etc.
Have you ever been a prig, spirtually? I know I have struggled with this before. Here is a couple of things that Oswald Chambers has to say on the matter that the Lord used to show me my own behavior.
The true character of the loveliness that tells for God is always unconscious. Conscious influence is priggish and un-Christian. If I say - I wonder if I am of any use - I instantly lose the bloom of the touch of the Lord. "He that believeth in me, out of him shall flow rivers of living water." If I examine the outflow, I lose the touch of the Lord.
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water. Be a centre for Jesus Christ to pour living water through. Stop being self-conscious, stop being a sanctified prig, and live the life hid with Christ. The life that is rightly related to God is as natural as breathing wherever it goes. The lives that have been of most blessing to you are those who were unconscious of it.
Interesting isn't it? I know that there have been times when I think I'm going to help somebody realize the truth of the matter. Or I think I'm gonna work on "this" person and save them. Sometimes I would open my mouth thinking that what "I" say will make this person realize how wrong they are or what is the "right" direction for them to go on. Man how I missed the point. But Jesus is faithful, and He's been working in me to help me realize that HE is the only one that can do these things.
It makes me think of Matthew 28:19
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations.
When I learned Koine Greek, I studied this verse, and it's interesting because the infasis is actually on the verb "GO", not "make dicsiples". It was explained to me that to understand this verse better, you would read it like this...
In your goings, make disciples...
It's in your everyday goings, wherever that may be, to let Jesus pour through you rivers of living water. I have learned to never try to "make a dicsiple", to let Jesus do that, either through me or not. It's completely up to Him. As I have been living this truth, it has been hard because the enemy throws through me thoughts that make me think that I'm not "doing" my part. Or things simular to that notion. But like I said, Jesus is faithful, and there have been times when somebody has told me that they felt that God used me to show them something, and I had no idea what was going on....
Hmmm, I guess that's all I have to say right now....until net time.

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