June 11, 2015
From June 4, My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers. When I read this type of devotional, I read it for application to my life but I also read it as it applies to Kathie’s life, I’m sometimes just left with just accepting the reading: “He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." —Hebrews 13:5 What line of thinking do my thoughts take? Do I turn to what God says or to my own fears? Am I simply repeating what God says, or am I learning to truly hear Him and then to respond after I have heard what He says? “For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?’ ” (Hebrews 13:5-6). “I will never leave you…”— not for any reason; not my sin, selfishness, stubbornness, nor waywardness. Have I really let God say to me that He will never leave me? If I have not truly heard this assurance of God, then let me listen again. “I will never…fors...