Word for Today, Sat, 1 Dec 2005: An Extraordinary God in Ordinary Life
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
Dear friends,
Today's devotional message comes from Heartlight.org, but the
source of the message really comes from the Oswald Chambers
Society.
Gospelcom.net, at http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/utmost/today/ ,
provides another source for Oswald Chambers devotions, and in
fact, is the referenced site on the main
http://www.oswaldchambers.co.uk Web site for online devotions.
Yours in Christ,
Brian
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January 1, 2005
LET US KEEP TO THE POINT
My eager desire and hope being that I may never feel
ashamed, but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in
my own person by fearless courage.
Philippians 1:20
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=php+1:20&sr=1
My Utmost for His Highest. "My eager desire and hope being that I
may never feel ashamed." We shall all feel very much ashamed if
we do not yield to Jesus on the point He has asked us to yield to
Him. Paul says - "My determination is to be my utmost for His
Highest." To get there is a question of will, not of debate nor
of reasoning, but a surrender of will, an absolute and
irrevocable surrender on that point. An overweening consideration
for ourselves is the thing that keeps us from that decision,
though we put it that we are considering others. When we consider
what it will cost others if we obey the call of Jesus, we tell
God He does not know what our obedience will mean. Keep to the
point; He does know. Shut out every other consideration and keep
yourself before God for this one thing only - My Utmost for His
Highest. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him
and for Him alone.
My Undeterredness for His Holiness. "Whether that means life or
death, no matter!" (v.21.) Paul is determined that nothing shall
deter him from doing exactly what God wants. God's order has to
work up to a crisis in our lives because we will not heed the
gentler way. He brings us to the place where He asks us to be
our utmost for Him, and we begin to debate; then He produces a
providential crisis where we have to decide - for or against, and
from that point the "Great Divide" begins.
If the crisis has come to you on any line, surrender your will to
Him absolutely and irrevocably.
MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - by Oswald Chambers //
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