Hope - A Holy Promise / Day 28 by Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers: Hope - A Holy Promise

Day 28 of 30 Nothing is so disastrously enervating as disillusionment. We much prefer our fictions and fairy stories about ourselves, to the stern realization of what we really are in God’s sight. In spiritual life disillusionment generally comes in relation to other people. For Ezekiel, the disillusionment came in connection with national life and in relation to God: the people began to realize that God is not what they had vainly hoped He was. The way we act when we come up against things proves whether we have been disillusioned or not; do we trust in our wits or do we worship God? If we trust in our wits, God will have to repeat the same lesson until we learn it. Whenever our faith is not in God, and in Him alone, there is still an illusion somewhere. Reflection Questions: Do I have hope in who God is or in who I want Him to be? What illusions do I prefer over reality? Quotations taken from Notes on Ezekiel and The Place of Help, © Discovery House Publishers Ezekiel 36:23-24 Ezekiel 36:23-24 NKJV 23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord ,” says the Lord God , “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. 24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.