Austin Fleth’s Reviews > My Utmost for His Highest > Status Update

“Stubbornness 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 on our own ambitions, we are hurting Jesus. Every time we stand on our own rights and insist that this is what we intend to do, we are persecuting Him.”

“A warning which needs to be repeated is that
"the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us…"

“Jesus Christ knows our circumstances better than we do, and He says we must not think about these things to the point where they become the primary concern of our life.”

Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don't take root anywhere. Jesus said if we would obey the life of God within us, He would look after all other things….
How much time have we wasted asking God senseless questions while we should be absolutely free to concentrate on our service to Him?

Acts 26:16 is tremendously compelling: "to make you a minister and a witness…..
"There would be nothing there without a personal relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person, not to a cause. He was absolutely Jesus Christ's. He saw nothing else and he lived for nothing else. "For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2).

“Am I so in love with Him that I take no thought for where He might lead me? Or am I watching to see how much respect I get as I measure how much service I should give Him?” - January 21