God's Omniscience: No place for "chance" in our walk with Christ!

Who shapes my Conscience?

"I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men." Acts 24:16

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"Conscience is that faculty in me which attaches itself to the highest that
I know, and tells me what the highest I know demands that I do. It is
the eye of the soul which looks out either towards God or towards what it
regards as the highest, and therefore conscience records differently in different
people. If I am in the habit of steadily facing myself with God, my conscience
will always introduce God’s perfect law and indicate what I should do. The
point is, will I obey? I have to make an effort to keep my conscience so sensitive
that I walk without offense. I should be living in such perfect sympathy with
God’s Son, that in every circumstance the spirit of my mind is renewed, and I
“make out” at once “what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of
God.”

"God always educates us down to the scruple. Is my ear so keen to hear the
tiniest whisper of the Spirit that I know what I should do? “Do not grieve
the Holy Spirit.” He does not come with a voice like thunder; His voice is so
gentle that it is easy to ignore it. The one thing that keeps the conscience
sensitive to Him is the continual habit of being open to God on the inside.
When there is any debate, quit. “Why shouldn’t I do this?” You are on the
wrong track. There is no debate possible when conscience speaks. At your peril, you allow one thing to obscure your inner communion with God. Drop it, whatever it is, and see that you keep your inner vision clear.p.699

The Oswald Chambers Daily Devotional Bible, p. 699

Reading 198—Despicable Yet Chosen
Psalm 85:1, 2
There were no nations until after the flood. After the flood the human
race was split up into nations, and God called off one stream of the
human race in Abraham, and created a nation out of that one man. The Old
Testament is not a history of the nations of the world, but the history of that
one nation. In secular history Israel is disregarded as being merely a miserable
horde of slaves, and justly so from the standpoint of the historian. The nations
to which the Bible pays little attention are much finer to read about, but they
have no importance in the redemptive purpose of God. His purpose was the
creation of a nation to be His bondsiave, that through that nation all the
other nations should come to know Him. The idea that Israel was a magnificently
developed type of nation is a mistaken one. Israel was a despised, and a despisable
nation, continually turning away from God into idolatry but nothing ever altered
the purpose of God for the nation. The despised element is always a noticeable
element in the purpose of God. When the Savior of the world came, He came
of that despised nation; He Himself was “despised and rejected by men,” and
in all Christian enterprise there is this same despised element, “things which
are despised God has chosen.” (SSY)

The Oswald Chambers Daily Devotional Bible, p. 675

"I am the Lord, and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things." Isaiah 45:6-7

"You are my God. My times are in Your hand." Psalm 31:14

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