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![]() ![]() When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don’t fill it with busyness, just wait. ![]() There are times when you can’t understand why you cannot do what you want to do. “Peter said to Him, Lord, why can I not follow You now?” John 13:37 She had spent so many years striving to follow Jesus, not realizing that, like Peter, what she needed was to learn to know herself and wait patiently for God’s movement in her life. The following is from Chambers’ January 4 entry that describes where Betty was emotionally and spiritually when she was introduced to the book. Chambers’ words kept bringing her back to believing Jesus rather than believing her beliefs about Him, bringing her finally to deep healing. It became her daily spiritual nurture for years. She read it without understanding much but always gleaned a little bit. It was the first time anyone had affirmed her for who she was and what she was interested in. She sat in the bay window of her home, turning the little book over and over, just looking at it and feeling the soft leather. A friend had given Oswald Chamber’s daily devotional, My Utmost for His Highest, to Betty for Christmas. ![]()
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