A dear friend of mine shared a quote with me yesterday from Oswald Chambers’ devotional work, My Utmost For His Highest. The quote came from the devotion for Monday. I have read Chambers’ book before and found it to be extremely meaningful. It has certainly stood the test of time.
But this quote was unfamiliar to me and it has continued to rock me to the core. Chambers commented on Matthew 6:25 which says, “do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you put on.” His simple comment was this:
Jesus summed up commonsense carefulness in the life of the disciple as unbelief.
I have lived by the mantra that we are to live by faith but God gave us a brain to be able to think through things to make logical choices. I still hold to that truth but Chambers’ words have me doing some self-examination.
Do I ever make choices based on commonsense and not on faith? Do I ever hold back and over-think things, all in the name of being careful and wise when I should move forward in faith?
Chambers challenges each of us to evaluate our motives and reasoning processes. We should never want to operate from a misguided place of feeling we are in control.
I do not want to be guilty of unbelief.
The truth of this lesson?
Worry about nothing, simply trust!
Clay in the Hands 
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