Heartiness vs. Heartlessness Towards Others

Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
April 1

"It is Christ...who maketh intercession for us."
"The Spirit...maketh intercession for the saints."
Romans 8:34, 27

"Do we need any more argument than this to become intercessors -
that Christ "ever liveth to make intercession";
that the Holy Spirit "maketh intercession for the saints?"

Are we living in such a vital relationship to our fellow men
that we do the work of intercession as the Spirit-taught
Children of God?

Begin with the circumstances we are in -
our homes, businesses, our country, the present crisis
as it touches us and others -
are these things crushing us?

Are they badgering us out of the presence of God and
leaving us no time for worship?

Then let us call a halt, and get into such living relationship with God
that our relationship to others may be maintained on the line of intersession
whereby God works His marvels.

Beware of outstripping God by your very longing to do His will.

We run ahead of Him in a thousand and one activities,
consequently we get so burdened with persons and difficulties
that we do not worship God, we do not intercede.

If once the burden and the pressure come upon us and we are not in the
worshipping attitude, it will produce not only hardness toward God
but despair in our own souls.

God continually introduces us to people for whom we have no affinity,
and unless we are worshipping God,
the most natural thing to do is to treat them heartlessly,
to give them a text like jab of a spear,
or leave them with a rapped-out counsel of God and go.

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to Our Lord.

Are we in direct line of the intercession of Our Lord and of the Holy Spirit?