Apprentice Focus - Honor Christ In Everything
Oswald Chambers - "My Utmost for His Highest"
January 1
"It’s as if Paul were saying, "My determined purpose is to be my utmost for His highest— my best for His glory." To reach that level of determination is a matter of the will, not of debate or of reasoning. It is absolute and irrevocable surrender of the will at that point. An undue amount of thought and consideration for ourselves is what keeps us from making that decision, although we cover it up with the pretense that it is others we are considering. When we think seriously about what it will cost others if we obey the call of Jesus, we tell God He doesn’t know what our obedience will mean. Keep to the point— He does know. Shut out every other thought and keep yourself before God in this one thing only— my utmost for His highest. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and Him alone."
2 Comments:
I read that last night. Great food for thought as I drifted off to sleep.
My utmost for his highest sounds very lofty but the phrase 'my best for his glory' brings it home pretty well.
Absolutely Rodney,
It would be great to keep that focus in all I do....
Happy New Year
Royal
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