Something that really struck me when I was reading it recently was from "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers (the updated version, edited by James Reimann.)
"After sanctification, it is difficult to state what your purpose in life is, because God has moved you into His purpose through the Holy spirit. He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used His Son for the purpose of our salvation. If you seek great things for yourself, thinking, "God has called me for this and for that," you barricade God from using you. As long as you maintain your own personal interests and ambitions, you cannot be completely aligned or identified with God's interests...I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. I should never say, "Lord, this causes me such heartache." To talk that way makes me a stumbling block. When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance.He can crush me, exalt me, or do anything else He chooses. He simply asks me to have absolute faith in Him and His goodness...."
I confess, I really have said lately that I am only here in the States because God required it of me. What He has brought us here to do is exciting, but I have said that it was painful to leave Saint Petersburg, and the International Christian Assembly there. I am guilty, as described above, of being a stumbling block to all that God wants to do through me. Thus, I am no longer going to say such things. Instead, I pray that my words will be something like, "I am here, doing this, because God has granted me the privilege of sharing about Eurasia with others." Then I will just have to have that absolute faith in Him and His goodness, that He will take what we offer Him, and use it for His glory and His honor!It has to be ALL about Him!
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