to do, but He never takes means to make us do it. We have to obey Him out of a oneness of spirit. ...[I]f my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without any hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love some one else in competition with Him, viz. [namely], myself. Jesus Christ will not help me to obey Him, I must
obey Him; and when I do obey Him, I fulfil my spiritual destiny. My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable...; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God’s Redemption comes to the point
of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God."
Oswald Chambers, "Authority and Independence,"
My Utmost for His Highest (classic), November 2