Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Oswald ChambersRead
There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Spiritual life involves a seamless process of worship, waiting, and work, which should not be treated as separate stages.
In this quote, Oswald Chambers emphasizes that spiritual growth is not a linear journey divided into distinct phases. Instead, he suggests that worship, waiting, and work are interconnected aspects of spiritual life that should coexist harmoniously. By comparing our spiritual journey to that of 'spiritual frogs' that jump between stages, he illustrates the common tendency to segregate these components, urging us to emulate the holistic approach exemplified in the life of Christ.
Themes
SpiritualityWorshipWaitingWorkFaithGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
During a seminar on spirituality, I mentioned, 'There are not three stages in spiritual life,' to emphasize the importance of integrating worship, waiting, and action.
More from Oswald Chambers
All quotes βNever make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
Oswald ChambersRead
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
Oswald ChambersRead
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
Oswald ChambersRead
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
Oswald ChambersRead
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
Oswald ChambersRead
Similar quotes
Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
Thomas KeatingRead
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.
Henri NouwenRead
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
Thomas MertonRead
Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.
Marianne WilliamsonRead
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips BrooksRead
In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
Francis ChanRead