Cutting to the Quick

"I came not to send peace, but a sword."  -Matthew 10:34

Oswald Chambers writes. . . .

If a man cannot get through to God it is because there is a secret thing he does not intend to give up.....People want the blessing of God, but they will not stand the thing that goes straight to the quick.  If God has had His way with you, your message as His servant is merciless insistence on the one line, cut down to the very root, otherwise there will be no healing....Begin to get at people where they are until you get them to realize what they lack, and then erect the standard of Jesus Christ for their lives--"We never can be that."  Then drive it home--"Jesus Christ says you must."  "But how can we be?"  "You cannot, unless you have a new Spirit." (Luke 11:13)

 Chambers concludes. . . .

Thousands of people are happy without God in this world.  If I was happy and moral till Jesus came, why did He come?  Because that kind of happiness and peace is on a wrong level;  Jesus Christ came to send a sword through every peace that is not based on a personal relationship to Himself.

I am grateful that peace can be found in Christ Jesus!