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Hi everyone - Have a Wonderful day full of His Spirit ! May His Love have it's perfect & entire work in our hearts, & consume us throughout the day , Hold our hearts close to yours today Lord !

OSWALD CHAMBERS "MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST"
September 22
The Missionary's Master and Teacher

You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am . . . . I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master . . . John 13:13, 16

To have a master and teacher is not the same thing as being mastered and taught. Having a master and teacher means that there is someone who knows me better than I know myself, who is closer than a friend, and who understands the remotest depths of my heart and is able to satisfy them fully. (because it is about our hearts, that is what the Lord is after, not obedience that has not first originated within our hearts )

It means having someone who has made me secure in the knowledge that he has met and solved all the doubts, uncertainties, and problems in my mind. To have a master and teacher is this and nothing less -- ". . . for One is your Teacher, the Christ . . ." ( Matthew 23:8 ).

(may this knowledge fill our hearts completely)

Our Lord never takes measures to make me do what He wants.

(Unlike what we are inclined to think but our minds need to be renewed and established in the depth of His great love for us - herein likes the great mystery of God to be unravelled and settled within our hearts so that we may abide in His love and rest in Him)

Sometimes I wish God would master and control me to make me do what He wants, but He will not.

(Yes definitely, me too, but I am so thankful that in His Wisdom He is instead after my heart, to become fully surrendered & nothing less. So the real struggle it seems is in the heart isn't it? As David knew - that God was after the heart, pursuing him relentlessly out of a great Love for him! Psalm 27:8 "When thou saidst, Seek ye my face, my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek" David's heart was grasping & relating to the Lord as Master, he understood the heart to heart communion between him and his Master)

And at other times I wish He would leave me alone, and He does not.

(Blessed be His Name & the wonder of His love for us)

"You call Me Teacher and Lord . . ." -- but is He? Teacher, Master, and Lord have little place in our vocabulary. We prefer the words Savior, Sanctifier, and Healer. The only word that truly describes the experience of being mastered is love, and we know little about love as God reveals it in His Word. The way we use the word obey is proof of this. In the Bible, obedience is based on a relationship between equals; for example, that of a son with his father. Our Lord was not simply God's servant -- He was His Son. ". . . though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience. . ." ( Hebrews 5:8 ). If we are consciously aware that we are being mastered, that idea itself is proof that we have no master. If that is our attitude toward Jesus, we are far away from having the relationship He wants with us. He wants us in a relationship where He is so easily our Master and Teacher that we have no conscious awareness of it -- a relationship where all we know is that we are His to obey.

(sounds like a completeness that the Son & Father had - this is what He is after with us also, not our will, by His be done. )