It’s the Process
I was reading Oswald Chambers the other day. As I hadn’t picked up his book “My Utmost for His Highest” for many a month, I thought it might be fun to read.
It opened up to Mark 6:4552: “And straightway He constrained His disciples to get into the ship and to go to the other side…” He wrote about the process of life and how God considers the process—the end. In other words, the process of what we are doing is what’s most important. The process is what God sees as valuable. How we treat others while getting from point A to point B and how we act and what we say, pray, or what we do not say or pray is what matters. It’s the journey not the end point that is important.
What is the purpose of any process we are in the midst of? Oswald Chambers says that God’s purpose is that we depend upon Him. His goal is for us to seek Him and to trust His ways over our own no matter the outcome. His desire is for us to see Him walking on the waves when there is no shore in sight.
He is in the present. However, I’m a slow learner. I often forget that which He has taught. And, it’s not all bad to have to double back in order to relearn as that’s part of the process. It keeps us dependent upon Him. In the end, the waves will wash and splash and crash within the crevices of life and riding the tide will wash anew what the Almighty can do. Then and only then will the ground upon which we walk be holy Theology, continued
and sound and stable as He is able. If you have a chance to pick up the little gem of a book, “My Utmost for His Highest” by Oswald chambers. It’s a dandy. If you happen to have it tucked away, perhaps it’s time to ransack the bookcase and dig it out once again. It’s good stuff and the price tag for this devotional was well under ten bucks. Philippians 1:6 offers an anchor when the tide rises. “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Another version of the same verse puts it this way. “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.”
And yet another: “There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.”
Enjoy the process. In Him our hope. Amen.
