Today's Thinker: Oswald Chambers

On "the practical everyday life" habits, which are exemplified by Jesus:

If we refuse to practice, it is not God's grace that fails when a crisis comes, but our own nature. When the crisis comes, we ask God to help us, but He cannot if we have not made our nature our
ally.

So Oswald Chambers writes in The Psychology of Redemption, quoted by Dallas Willard in The Spirit of the Disciplines.

Ever wondered how often we blame God for stuff that is simply our own stinkin' fault because we refuse to conform to the image of Christ?