Behind My Voice

I will find nothing more searching... 

• than what the New Testament has to say with regard to the miserable, petty line of insisting on my own rights.  
• The Holy Spirit gives me power to forgo my rights.

How often I have faced difficulties that never came, 

• and every time I faced them I unfitted myself for the duty that lay before me.  
• I have no business to be thinking about something else, 
• my duty is always the duty that lies nearest.

Interest is natural, attention must be by effort.  

• One of the great needs of my Christian life is to have a place 
• where I deliberately attend to realities.  
• That is the real meaning of prayer.

Pride, disdain for the people I talk to, 

• will shut my mouth quicker than anything.  
• When I speak, see that behind my voice is the life of God.

Adapted Excerpt From Run Today's Race by Oswald Chambers