By Myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou
\n hast done this thing … that in blessing I will bless
\n thee… .<\/p>\n— Genesis 22:15-19<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Abraham has reached the place where he is in touch with the very
\nnature of God, he understands now the Reality of God.<\/p>\n“My goal is God Himself . . .
\nAt any cost, dear Lord, by any road.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n“At any cost, by any road” means nothing self-chosen in the way God
\nbrings us to the goal.<\/p>\nThere is no possibility of questioning when God speaks if He speaks
\nto His own nature in me; prompt obedience is the only result. When
\nJesus say – “Come,” I simply come; when He says – “Let go,” I let go;
\nwhen He says – “Trust in God in this matter,” I do trust. The whole
\nworking out is the evidence that the nature of God is in me.<\/p>\nGod’s revelation of Himself to me is determined by my character, not
\nby God’s character.<\/p>\n“‘Tis because I am mean,
\nThy ways so oft look mean to me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\nBy the discipline of obedience I get to the place where Abraham was
\nand I see Who God is. I never have a real God until I have come face
\nto face with Him in Jesus Christ, then I know that “in all the world,
\nmy God, there is none but Thee, there is none but Thee.” The promises
\nof God are of no value to us until by obedience we understand the
\nnature of God. We read some things in the Bible three hundred and
\nsixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we
\nsee what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God,
\nand instantly His nature is opened up. “All the promises of God in
\nHim are yea, and in Him Amen.” The “yea” must be born of obedience;
\nwhen by the obedience of our lives we say “Amen” to a promise, then
\nthat promise is ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing … that in blessing I will bless thee… . — Genesis 22:15-19 Abraham has reached the place where he is in touch with the very nature of God, he understands now the Reality of God. “My goal is God Himself…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}