Ready in Season - if you make a god out of your best moments, you will find that God will fade out of your life, never to return until you are obedient in the work He has placed closest to you. If you say you will only be at your best for God, as during those exceptional times, you actually become an intolerable burden on Him. It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don’t agree with us

"Be ready in season and out of season." 2 Timothy 4:2

Many of us suffer from the unbalanced tendency to “be ready” only “out of season.” 

The season does not refer to time; it refers to us. 

This verse says, “Preach the Word! Be ready in season and out of season.”

In other words, we should “be ready” whether we feel like it or not. 

If we do only what we feel inclined to do, some of us would never do anything. 

There are some people who are totally unemployable in the spiritual realm. 

They are spiritually feeble and weak, and they refuse to do anything unless they are supernaturally inspired.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

One of the worst traps a Christian worker can fall into is to become obsessed with his own exceptional moments of inspiration. 

When the Spirit of God gives you a time of inspiration and insight, you tend to say, “Now that I’ve experienced this moment, I will always be like this for God.” 

No, you will not, and God will make sure of that. 

Those times are entirely the gift of God. 

You cannot give them to yourself when you choose. 

If you say you will only be at your best for God, as during those exceptional times, you actually become an intolerable burden on Him. 

You will never do anything unless God keeps you consciously aware of His inspiration to you at all times.

If you make a god out of your best moments, you will find that God will fade out of your life, never to return until you are obedient in the work He has placed closest to you.

And until you have learned not to be obsessed with those exceptional moments He has given you.

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS

It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don’t agree with us.

from Disciples Indeed

My Utmost for His Highest  

The Life of Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers was born in Scotland and spent much of his boyhood there. His ministry of teaching and preaching took him for a time to the United States and Japan.

The last six years of his life were spent as principal of the Bible Training College in London, and as a chaplain to British Commonwealth troops in Egypt during World War l.

After his death, the books which bear his name were compiled by his wife from her own verbatim shorthand notes of his talks.

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