From My Utmost for His Highest: Liberty and the Standards of Jesus

May 5, 2010 11:57 PM

From My Utmost for His Highest: Liberty and the Standards of Jesus

by makestraight

I recommend that you read today’s “Liberty and the Standards of Jesus” reading from My Utmost for His Highest.

I liked this excerpt:

Always measure your life solely by the standards of Jesus. Submit yourself to His yoke, and His alone; and always be careful never to place a yoke on others that is not of Jesus Christ. It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong. That is never God’s view. There is only one true liberty— the liberty of Jesus at work in our conscience enabling us to do what is right.

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Jesus said, “Go . . . and make disciples. . .” ( Matthew 28:19 ), not, “Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.”