Little Gleanings from the book, My Uttmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers~

~~I would like to share with you a few things from the devotional I read this morning from My Utmost for His Highest, ~But it is Hardly Credible that one could so Persecute Jesus!~ "Saul, Saul, Why persecutest thou Me?" Acts xxvi.14 ..."Obstinacy and self will will always stab Jesus Christ. It may hurt no one else, but it wounds His Spirit. Whenever we are obstinate and self willed and set upon our own ambitions, we are hurting Jesus.... Whenever we stand on our dignity we systematically vex and grieve His Spirit; and when the knowledge comes home that it is Jesus whom we have been persecuting all the time, it is the most crushing revelation there could be. .... I may teach sanctification and yet exhibit the spirit of Satan, the spirit that persecutes Jesus. The spirit of Jesus is conscious of one thing only- a perfect oneness with the Father, and He says, "Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart." All I do ought to be founded on a perfect oness with Him, not on a self willed determination to be godly.This will mean that I can easily put upon, easily overreached, easily ignored; but if I submit to it for His sake, I prevent Jesus Christ from being persecuted."