Luke 14:26
If anyone comes to Me and
does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters,
yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
Alone! Reliquish all! You must abandon all and fling
yourself on God as a mere conscious being… we must give up our right to
ourselves… A sanctified soul may be an artist or a musician, but he is not a
sanctified artist or musician; he is one who expresses the message of God
through a particular medium. As long as the artist or musician imagines he can
consecrate his artistic gifts to God, he is deluded. Abandonment of ourselves
is the kernel of consecration -- not presenting our gifts, but presenting
ourselves without reserve.
Excerpts from Oswald Chambers
Daily Devotional Bible, Reading 109 (4/19)
From The
Discipline of Loneliness
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