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Markopolo
07-13-2020, 08:44 AM
rainy still here.... with a chance of HEAVY rain....lol

The Price of the Vision
By Oswald Chambers

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord… —Isaiah 6:1

Our soul’s personal history with God is often an account of the death of our heroes. Over and over again God has to remove our friends to put Himself in their place, and that is when we falter, fail, and become discouraged. Let me think about this personally— when the person died who represented for me all that God was, did I give up on everything in life? Did I become ill or disheartened? Or did I do as Isaiah did and see the Lord?

My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my character. My character determines whether or not truth can even be revealed to me. Before I can say, “I saw the Lord,” there must be something in my character that conforms to the likeness of God. Until I am born again and really begin to see the kingdom of God, I only see from the perspective of my own biases. What I need is God’s surgical procedure— His use of external circumstances to bring about internal purification.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God and no one else is taken into account whatsoever. Your prayer will then be, “In all the world there is no one but You, dear God; there is no one but You.”

Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.

and have a blessed day...

USMC87
07-13-2020, 09:05 AM
This lesson is 100% right on, Amen!

Boaz
07-14-2020, 07:12 AM
Very good lesson !

Wayne Smith
07-14-2020, 07:36 AM
It has been said, with truth, that we cannot truly see God until we get past our own fathers.