Leave Room for God

From My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

http://utmost.org/

"When it pleased God..." - Galatians 1:15

As servants of God, we must learn to make room for Him--to God "elbow room." We plan and figure and predict that this or that will happen, but we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses. Would we be surprised if God came into our meeting or into our preaching in a way we had never expected Him to come? Do not look for God to come in a particular way, but do look for Him. The way to make room for Him is to expect Him to come, but not in a certain way. No matter how well we may know God, the great lesson to learn is that He may break in at any minute. We tend to overlook this element of surprise, yet God never works in any other way. Suddenly--God meets our life "...when it pleased God..."

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point. Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

"He has made everything beautiful in its time."

"For everything there is a season,

and a time for every matter under heaven:

a time to be born, and a time to die;

a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

a time to kill, and a time to heal;

a time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to weep, and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

a time to seek, and a time to lose;

a time to keep, and a time to sew;

a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

a time to love, and a time to hate;

a time for war, and a time for peace."

- Ecclesiates 3:1-8

"He has made everything beautiful in its time."

- Ecclesiates 3:11a

If there is a time for everything and He has made everything beautiful in its time, what do we do? We simply trust Him, in His goodness, in His sovereignty, in His love for us, the love that did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up us for all...

Lord, have mercy and help our unbelief.