Wouldn't you know, I read this right after I was thinking something not very nice about someone this morning. God always knows what we need to hear.
Excerpts from Oswald Chambers' devotional for today:
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in motive because he has been made good by the supernatural grace of God. The only thing that exceeds right-doing is right-being.
Jesus says--If you are My disciple you must be right not only in your living, but in your motives, in your dreams, in the recesses of your mind. You must be so pure in your motives that God Almighty can see nothing to censure.
Who can stand in the Eternal Light of God and have nothing for God to censure? Only the Son of God, and Jesus Christ claims that by His Redemption He can put into any man His own disposition, and make him as unsullied and as simple as a child.
Dear Lord, reach into the depths of my soul. Clean out those feelings of ill-will that like to hide in there and multiply. Replace them with Christ-like thinking, behavior, and compassion.
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