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Pain And the Word Of God
Have You Felt the Pain
Inflicted by the Lord?
By Oswald Chambers
He said to him the
third time, "…do
you love Me?" — John 21:17
Have you ever felt the pain,
inflicted by the Lord, at the very center of your being, deep down in the most
sensitive area of your life?
The devil never inflicts pain there, and neither can sin nor
human emotions.
Nothing can cut through to that part of our being but the Word
of God.
“Peter was grieved
because He said to him the third time, ‘Do you love Me?’ ”
Yet he was awakened to the fact that at the center of his
personal life he was devoted to Jesus.
And then he began to see what Jesus’ patient questioning meant.
There was not the slightest bit of doubt left in Peter’s mind;
he could never be deceived again.
And there was no need for an impassioned response; no need for
immediate action or an emotional display.
It was a revelation
to him to realize how much he did love the Lord, and with amazement he simply
said, “Lord, You know all things….”
Peter began to see
how very much he did love Jesus, and there was no need to say, “Look at this or that as proof of my love.”
Peter was beginning to discover within himself just how much he
really did love the Lord.
He discovered that his eyes were so fixed on Jesus Christ that
he saw no one else in heaven above or on the earth below.
But he did not know it until the probing, hurting questions of
the Lord were asked.
The Lord’s questions always reveal the true me to myself.
Oh, the wonder of the patient directness and skill of Jesus
Christ with Peter!
Our Lord never asks questions until the perfect time.
Rarely, but probably once in each of our lives, He will back us
into a corner where He will hurt us with His piercing questions.
Then we will realize that we do love Him far more deeply than
our words can ever say.
WISDOM FROM
OSWALD CHAMBERS
The emphasis to-day is placed on the
furtherance of an organization; the note is, “We must keep this thing going.”
If we are in God’s order the thing
will go; if we are not in His order, it won’t. Conformed to His Image, 357 R
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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