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

~~The dicipline of dejection~~ Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the interferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savours of dejection spisitually is wrong. If deppression and oppression visit me, I am to blame; God is not, nor is anyone else. Dejection springs from one of two sources- I have either satisfied a lust or I have not. Lust means- I must have it at once. Spiritual lust makes me demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God for an answer. What have I been trusting God would do? And today the immediate present is the third day, and he has not done it; threfore I imagine I am being justified in being dejected by blaming God. Whenever the insistance is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off track. The meaning of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.... We look for visions from heaven, for earthquekes and thunders of God's power, ansd we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us. If we will do the duty that lies nearest, we shall see Him. One of the most amazing realtions of God comes when we learn that it is in the most commonplace things that the Deity of Jesus Christ is relized.