Below is today's devotion from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers.
The emphasis in large print is mine. How true these thoughts are and how challenging.
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The Failure To Pay Close Attention
Asa was not completely obedient in the outward, visible areas of
his life. He was obedient in what he considered the most important
areas, but he was not entirely right. Beware of ever thinking, “Oh, that
thing in my life doesn’t matter much.” The fact that it doesn’t matter
much to you may mean that it matters a great deal to God. Nothing should
be considered a trivial matter by a child of God. How much longer are
we going to prevent God from teaching us even one thing? But He keeps
trying to teach us and He never loses patience. You say, “I know I am
right with God”— yet the “high places” still remain in your life. There
is still an area of disobedience. Do you protest that your heart is
right with God, and yet there is something in your life He causes you to
doubt? Whenever God causes a doubt about something, stop it
immediately, no matter what it may be. Nothing in our lives is a mere
insignificant detail to God.
Are there some things regarding your physical or intellectual life to which you have been paying no attention at all? If so, you may think you are all correct in the important areas, but you are careless— you are failing to concentrate or to focus properly. You no more need a day off from spiritual concentration on matters in your life than your heart needs a day off from beating. As you cannot take a day off morally and remain moral, neither can you take a day off spiritually and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely His, and it requires paying close attention to keep yourself fit. It also takes a tremendous amount of time. Yet some of us expect to rise above all of our problems, going from one mountaintop experience to another, with only a few minutes’ effort.
Are there some things regarding your physical or intellectual life to which you have been paying no attention at all? If so, you may think you are all correct in the important areas, but you are careless— you are failing to concentrate or to focus properly. You no more need a day off from spiritual concentration on matters in your life than your heart needs a day off from beating. As you cannot take a day off morally and remain moral, neither can you take a day off spiritually and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely His, and it requires paying close attention to keep yourself fit. It also takes a tremendous amount of time. Yet some of us expect to rise above all of our problems, going from one mountaintop experience to another, with only a few minutes’ effort.
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