Friday, April 24, 2009

Note from the Watchmen: Part 5 to our Sudden Terror devotional series has been delayed until tomorrow morning. We are sorry for the delay and will have it posted as quickly as possible. Please, while waiting, enjoy the devotional that was selected for you below.




If Thou hadst Known!
By Oswald Chambers

If thou hadst known . . . in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. (Luke 19:42 KJV)

Jesus had entered into Jerusalem in triumph, the city was stirred to its foundations; but a strange god was there, the pride of Pharisaism; it was religious and upright, but a "whited sepulchre." What is it that blinds me in this "my day"? Have I a strange god - not a disgusting monster, but a disposition that rules me? More than once God has brought me face to face with the strange god and I thought I should have to yield, but I did not do it. I got through the crisis by the skin of my teeth and I find myself in the possession of the strange god still; I am blind to the things which belong to my peace.

It is an appalling thing that we can be in the place where the Spirit of God should be getting at us unhinderedly, and yet increase our condemnation in God's sight. "If thou hadst known" - God goes direct to the heart, with the tears of Jesus behind. These words imply culpable responsibility; God holds us responsible for what we do not see. "Now they are hid from thine eyes" - because the disposition has never been yielded. The unfathomable sadness of the "might have been!" God never opens doors that have been closed. He opens other doors, but He reminds us that there are doors which we have shut, doors which need never have been shut, imaginations which need never have been sullied.

Never be afraid when God brings back the past. Let memory have its way. It is a minister of God with its rebuke and chastisement and sorrow. God will turn the "might have been" into a wonderful culture for the future.
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  1. Son of AslanApril 24, 2009 at 11:42 AM

    Okay... So we have the "what we are to do". Now, how about the "how"?

    I have asked God, repeatedly, sincerely, genuinely, for this word just for me, to no avail, for the past two years. Spending every solitary moment in his presumed presence, I have perceived nothing. Nothing has occurred. I have even had prophets prophesy over me telling me, without any provocation, that I am to "soon have a unusual experience from God." And still nothing.

    So, since these words aren't something we can simply run and grab off the shelf at Walmart, please explain how to get God to give it.

    I am growing weary of smiting Jordan's waters and screaming "Where is the god of Elijah!?". Why haven't they parted for me?

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