The God of Hope within

I have recently rediscovered the wisdom of Oswald Chambers in his book My Utmost for His Highest. September 20th's entry blends in with my previous posts as to the presence of the Holy Spirit becoming our motivating power to bring us into the obedience to Christ.
No person is a biblical Christian without Christ's spirit dwelling within them. How does He dwell in us? That's a bit of a mystery except when we step back and take a look at the full picture and realize who God is and what he is capable of. How He does it is somewhat mysterious to us but works out well in the reality of the every day. Like the wind, we can't see it, but we certainly feel its power exerted against what we can see. We have to be reminded every once in a while that He is our salvation, not our works or the works of any other man whether a religious leader or political figure. God is God alone. We only can know Him through His son.
Chambers says:
"God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as a human life trying to be godly. The secret of a Christian is that the supernatural is made natural in him by the grace of God, and the experience of this works out in the practical details of life."
The Spirit of Christ makes us godly, and that godliness is manifested in practical living. Although hampered by our faulty humanity that is subject to temptation and human reasoning, God chooses to dwell in us and try to reveal himself to the world.
Further exerpts from Chamber's September 21st entry:
"...The whole human race was created to glorify God and enjoy Him for ever...I am created for God, he made me. This realization of the election of God is the most joyful realization on earth, and we have to learn to rely on the tremendous creative purpose of God...The love of God, the very nature of God, is introduced into us, and the nature of Almighty God is focused in John 3:16__"God so loved the world..."...We have to maintain our soul open to the fact of God's creative purpose, and not muddle it with our own intentions.... Our Lord never enforces obedience; He does not take means to make me do what He wants. At certain times I wish God would master me and make me do the thing, but he will not, in other moods I wish He would leave me alone, but He does not.... He wants us in the relationship in which He is easily Master without our conscious knowledge of it, all we know is that we are His to obey."
Christ himself walked in humble obedience to the Father, and sought every opportunity to commune with God and to glorify Him in everything he said or did. What a wonderful plan. Many religious sects, including many Christian sects, force their people to adhere to a set of laws and give them sharp reprimands if they fail to obey. History records numbers of wars that were begun because of a religious group trying to enforce their beliefs on other nations. We face this today by some groups.
Christ appeals to our reason and heart, He does not force himself on anyone. He may bring strong conviction to convince us of our sins and our sinfulness, but he offers deliverance from sin IF we choose to accept His method of grace- "Christ in you, the hope of glory". The choice remains ours, we accept his means of grace and lifestyle, or we reject it and continue on in the hands of Satan living an ungodly life.
Many years ago a fellow parishoner of mine used to frequently testify in church as to the grace of God in his life. William Gallon lived a careful walk with God, and was faithful to give God the glory, his favorite ending to almost all of his testimonies was "It's Him". That has sunk into my soul like God's finger on stone when he gave the 10 commandments to Abraham.
Our only mission in life is to "Know Christ and Make Him Known". That quote is taken from the home church of my almamater Hobe Sound Bible College. It is simple and to the point and is our only calling. We make him known by our words and our godly life. Our humaniy gets in our way at times and we feel discouraged, but that should only cause us to further realize "It's Him". We can only live the Christian life by the help of the Spirit of God.
God help me, I see it, please help me to remember it and throw off everything that hinders my walk with the Holy and omnipotent God of all creation.