Look again and consecrate - Chambers, Oswald

January 26

If god so clothe the grass of the field, . . . Shall he not much more clothe you? Matthew 6:30.

A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving his spirit, recognising and relying on him, obeying him as he brings the word of god, and life will become amazingly simple. Consider, says jesus, how much more your father who clothes the grass of the field will clothe you, if you keep your relationship right with him. Every time we have gone back in spiritual communion it has been because we have imper- tinently known better than jesus christ. We have allowed the cares of the world to come in, and have forgotten the much more of our heavenly father. Behold the fowls of the air their one aim is to obey the principle of life that is in them and god looks after them. Jesus says that if you are rightly related to him and obey this spirit that is in you, god will look after your feathers. Consider the lilies of the field they grow where they are put. Many of us refuse to grow where we are put, consequently we take root nowhere. Jesus says that if we obey the life god has given us, he will look after all the other things. Has Jesus christ told us a lie? If we are not experiencing the much more, it is because we are not obeying the life god has given us, we are taken up with confusing considerations. How much time have we taken up worrying god with questions when we should have been absolutely free to concentrate on his work? Consecration means the continual separating of myself to one particular thing. We cannot con- secrate once and for all. Am i continually separating myself to consider god every day of my life?