My Utmost for His Highest - June 3rd - The Secret of the Lord

The secret (friendship R.V.) of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. - Psalm 25:14

    What is the sign of a friend? That he tells you secret sorrows? No, that he tells you secret joys. Many will confide to you their secret sorrows, but the last mark of intimacy is to confide secret joys. Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys, or are we telling God our secrets continually that we leave no room for Him to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian life we are full of requests to God, then we find that God wants to get us into relationship with Himself, to get us in touch with His purposes. Are we so wedded to Jesus Christ's idea of prayer--"Thy will be done (Matthew 6:10)"--that we catch the secrets of God? The things that make God dear to us are not so much His great big blessings as the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us; He knows every detail of our individual lives. 

    ". . . him shall He teach in the way that He shall choose. (Psalm 25:12)" At first we want the consciousness of being guided by God, then as we go on we live so much in the consciousness of God that we do not need to ask what His will is, because the thought of choosing any other will never occur to  us. If we are saved and sanctified God guides us by our ordinary choices, and if we are going to choose what He does not want, he will check, and we must heed. Whenever there is doubt, stop at once. Never reason it out and say--"I wonder why I shouldn't?" God instructs us in what we choose, that is, He guides our common sense, and we no longer hinder His Spirit by continually saying--"Now, Lord, what is Thy will?"

- From Oswald Chambers, "My Utmost for His Highest" - Classic Edition

Highlights and Underlines are courtesy of Mom from her print edition

My thoughts

We often come to God filled with our needs and wants, but do we think about the relationship that God wants with us and what He wants to share with us? Is it "thy will be done" or "our will be done?" God knows the details of our lives. He knows, but do I know the details of His life? When we are walking with Him day by day, walking in His presence, then He will be teaching us in the way we are to walk so that we don't really need to ask Him for His will.  He will guides us by our ordinary choices. If the Spirit is giving me doubt about a situation then don't try to reason it out, but simply stop and move on to what He confirms He wants.