A New Era...

Welp, it's done. Barack Obama is officially the 44th President of the United States of America. As I read My Utmost for His Highest, I found it appropriate to share with you what Oswald Chambers wrote...
Are you fresh for everything?
'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.' - John 3:3
Sometimes we are fresh for a prayer meeting but not fresh for cleaning boots!

Being born again of the Spirit is an unmistakable work of God, as mysterious as the wind, as surprising as God Himself. We do not know where it begins, it is hidden away in the depths of our personal life. Being born again from above is a perennial, perpetual and eternal beginning; a freshness all the time in thinking and in talking and in living, the continual surprise of the life of God. Staleness is an indication of something out of joint with God -- ' I must do this thing or it will never be done.' That is the first sign of staleness. Are we freshly born this minute or are we stale, raking in our minds for something to do? Freshness does no come from obedience but from the Holy Spirit; obedience keeps us in the light as God is in the light.

Guard jealously your relationship to God. Jesus prayed 'that they may be one, even as we are one' -- nothing between. Keep all the life perennially open to Jesus Christ, don't pretend with Him. Are you drawing your life from any other source than God Himself? If you are depending upon anything but Him, you will never know when He is gone.

Being born of the Spirit means much more than we generally take it to mean. It gives us new vision and keeps us absolutely fresh for everything by the perennial supply of the life of God.
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As we turn a new chapter in the life of our nation, I wonder if you are Fresh.
Or are you stale?
How are you and Jesus doing today? I 'bolded' and 'underlined' the two lines that stuck out the most to me.
What is out of joint with you and God?

These are eternal questions. Questions that our souls need to answer. I pray that we are depending upon Him because if we don't, we will never know when He is gone...