Happy Saturday, friends. I read the quote below earlier in the week and and can't stop thinking about it. So I guess I need to share it with someone I love. So, here goes: from My Utmost for His Highest:
"The Delights of His Friendship. Genesis 18 brings out the delight of true friendship with God, as compared with simply feeling His presence occasionally in prayer. This friendship means being so intimately in touch with God that you never even need to ask Him to show you His will. It is evidence of a level of intimacy which confirms that you are nearing the final stage of your discipline in the life of faith.
When you have a right standing relationship with God, you have a life of freedom, liberty and delight; you are God's will. And all of your commonsense decisions are actually His will for you, unless you sense a feeling of restraint brought on by a check in your spirit. You are free to make decisions in the light of a perfect and delightful friendship with God, knowing that if your decisions are wrong He will lovingly produce that sense of restraint. Once He does, you must stop immediately."
Wow - I totally love that. The possibility that if I am so immersed in God, my commonsense everyday decisions are actually His will for me. That is an amazing freedom. Not to mention peace. And then trusting Him to bring the restraint when the common sense fails.
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