“Don’t let your circumstances change your faith; let your faith change your circumstances. Remember, visions make leaders passionate, but thorns keep them authentic.”- Os Hillman
Today Os Hillman concludes Chapter 11 of The Joseph Calling. First, he stresses that, at some point, everyone comes to a place where they know and experience what they believe. This experience elicits one of two reactions:
- a launching pad for a deeper faith experience; advancement toward their larger story
- a crossroads for a shipwreck faith; victims, rather than victors, to their crisis and unforgiveness; focus on what God isn’t doing versus what God is doing
Thus, Oswald Chambers notes the importance of attending the funeral of your own independence. Mr. Chamber writes:
“Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence. The natural life is not spiritual, and it can only be made spiritual by sacrifice. If we do not resolutely sacrifice the natural, the supernatural can never become natural for us.”
Therefore, Os emphasizes, it’s important to stay the course as we walk out the Christian life. In other words, at time we need to fight through times of the cross. Specifically, Oswald Chambers reminds us that “when God puts the dark of ‘nothing’ into your experience, it is the most positive something He can give you. As Mr. Hillman puts it, sometimes God subtracts before He adds, dismantles before He remantles.
In conclusion, Os states that if someone in your life attempts to put the third nail into your death process, under no circumstances fight it. Allow God to finish the process.
Today’s question: Does your faith change your circumstances, or vice versa? Please share.
Tomorrow’s blog: “When Satan throws bricks at you”
