“We continually ask God to fill you with
the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and understanding that the
Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in
every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God…” (Colossians 1:9b-10 NIV)
We presume that we would be ready for
battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds
something within us -- it simply reveals what we are made of already. Do you
find yourself saying, “If God calls me to battle, of course I will rise to the
occasion”? Yet you won’t rise to the occasion unless you have done so on God’s
training ground [of worship, Bible study, and prayer]. If you are not doing the
task that is closest to you now, which God has engineered into your life, when
the crisis comes, instead of being fit for battle, you will be revealed as
being unfit. Crises always reveal a person’s true character.
-- Oswald Chambers in “My Utmost for His
Highest”
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