My Utmost for His Highest - May 23rd - Careful Infidelity

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? - Matthew 6:25

    Jesus sums up common-sense carefulness in a disciple as infidelity. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will press through and say--Now where does God come in in this relationship, in this mapped out holiday, in these new books? He always presses the point until we learn to make Him our first consideration. Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

    "Take no thought. . ." don't take the pressure of forethought upon yourself. It is not only wrong to worry, it is infidelity, because worrying means that we do not think that God can look after the practical details of our lives, and it is never anything else that worries us. Have you ever noticed what Jesus said would choke the word He puts in? The devil? No, the cares of this world (Matthew 13:22). It is the little worries always. I will not trust where I cannot see, that is where infidelity begins. The only cure for infidelity is obedience to the Spirit.

    The great word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon.

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

Highlights and Underlines are courtesy of Mom from her print edition.

My thoughts

Infidelity is to be unfaithful to a spouse or to have unbelief is a religion. Either one of these definitions could be would Chambers is saying here - that worry or not listening to what God tells us to do is infidelity. We must be careful that we don't let the cares of this world sabotage our focus on Him. That we don't get pre-occupied with earning money, listening to our leaders, being responsible -- the cares of this world - and stop listening to Him.