The Narrow Path Ministries

this was from oswald chambers a couple of days ago:


APPROVED UNTO GOD



"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15

If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the days of his life. Struggle to re-express some truth of God to yourself, and God will use that expression to someone else. Go through the winepress of God where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle to get expression experimentally, then there will come a time when that expression will become the very wine of strengthening to someone else; but if you say lazily - "I am not going to struggle to express this thing for myself, I will borrow what I say," the expression will not only be of no use to you, but of no use to anyone. Try to state to yourself what you feel implicitly to be God's truth, and you give God a chance to pass it on to someone else through you.

Always make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not ours until we make it ours by suffering. The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

TK

Thanks for that quote TK.

That seems so contrary to our modern "group think" mentality.

I used to read My Utmost for His Highest everyday for years until it finally fell apart. This struggle he mentions is so true. We think we know the gospel UNTIL we attempt to share it with someone! That is one of the things I like best about forums such as this one - it gives a venue to express what we think we understand and discover our own faith in the process. And hopefully our errors as well...

exactly, robin.

somtimes i think i know stuff pretty well until i bring it up here, then i realize that i need to know more than i do. people here help with this part of the quote:

the author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.