I hadn't planned on adding an entry today, then I read the selection from My Utmost For His Highest for today. It's really good stuff, so I'm going to quote some of it, here. The title is "The Divine Rule of Life," and the Scripture passage is Matthew 5:48, in which Jesus says, "You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Now...taken out of context, this sounds like a whale of a command. However, in this paragraph, Jesus is speaking of the way we treat people. And this is what Oswald Chambers has to say:

�In the spiritual life beware of walking according to natural affinities. Everyone has natural affinities; some people we like and others we do not like. We must never let those likes and dislikes rule in our Christian life.�

�To be a disciple means that we deliberately identify ourselves with God�s interests in other people.�

Now, this requires wisdom to know what God�s interests in someone else are. We can�t decide that God�s interests in our lives are necessarily the same as God�s interests in someone else�s life. That is our tendency. �God wants me to be this way, therefore, he wants you to be that way, too.� No. It is never that way.

�If the Spirit of God has transformed you within you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics. God�s life in us expresses itself as God�s life, not as human life trying to be godly.�

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