Are You Obsessed By Something? – Oswald Chambers
Psalm 25:12
What are you haunted (obsessed) by? You will say – By nothing,
but we are all haunted (obsessed) by something, generally by ourselves, or, if
we are Christians, by our experience. The Psalmist says we are to be haunted
(obsesses) by God. The abiding consciousness of the life is to be God, not
thinking about Him. The whole of our life inside and out is to be absolutely
haunted (obsesses) by the presence of God. A child’s consciousness is so
mother-haunted (obsessed) that although the child is not consciously thinking
of its mother, yet when calamity arises, the relationship that abides is that
of the mother. So we are to live and move and have our being in God, to look at
everything in relation to God, because the abiding consciousness of God pushes
itself to the front all the time.
If we are haunted (obsessed) by God, nothing else can get in, no
cares, no tribulation, no anxieties. We see now why Our Lord so emphasized the
sin of worry. How can we dare be so utterly unbelieving when God is round about
us? To be haunted (obsessed) by God is to have an effective barricade against
all the onslaughts of the enemy.
"His soul shall dwell at ease." In tribulation,
misunderstanding, slander, in the midst of all these things, if our life is hid
with Christ in God, He will keep us at ease. We rob ourselves of the marvellous
revelation of this abiding companionship of God. "God is our Refuge"
– nothing can come through that shelter
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