The Habit of Recognizing God’s Provision - God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you … may have an abundance. Lavish the grace of God on others, generously giving of yourself. We are made “partakers of the divine nature,” receiving and sharing God’s own nature through His promises. Be identified with God’s nature, and His blessing will flow through you all the time. God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you … may have an abundance

"… you may be partakers of the divine nature …" - 2 Peter 1:4

We are made “partakers of the divine nature,” receiving and sharing God’s own nature through His promises. 

Then we have to work that divine nature into our human nature by developing godly habits. 

The first habit to develop is the habit of recognizing God’s provision for us. 

We say, however, “Oh, I can’t afford it.” 

One of the worst lies is wrapped up in that statement.

We talk as if our heavenly Father has cut us off without a penny! 

We think it is a sign of true humility to say at the end of the day, “Well, I just barely got by today, but it was a severe struggle.” 

And yet all of Almighty God is ours in the Lord Jesus!

And He will reach to the last grain of sand and the remotest star to bless us if we will only obey Him.

Does it really matter that our circumstances are difficult? 

Why shouldn’t they be! 

If we give way to self–pity and indulge in the luxury of misery, we remove God’s riches from our lives and hinder others from entering into His provision. 

No sin is worse than the sin of self–pity, because it removes God from the throne of our lives, replacing Him with our own self–interests. 

It causes us to open our mouths only to complain, and we simply become spiritual sponges — always absorbing, never giving, and never being satisfied. 

And there is nothing lovely or generous about our lives.

Before God becomes satisfied with us, He will take everything of our so–called wealth, until we learn that He is our Source; as the psalmist said, 

“All my springs are in You” - (Psalm 87:7). 

If the majesty, grace, and power of God are not being exhibited in us, God holds us responsible. 

“God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you … may have an abundance …” - (2 Corinthians 9:8).

Then learn to lavish the grace of God on others, generously giving of yourself. 

Be marked and identified with God’s nature, and His blessing will flow through you all the time.

Bible in One Year: 2 Kings 24-25; John 5:1-24

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS

We begin our Christian life by believing what we are told to believe, then we have to go on to so assimilate our beliefs that they work out in a way that redounds to the glory of God. 

The danger is in multiplying the acceptation of beliefs we do not make our own.

from Conformed to His Image

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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