My Utmost for His Highest

I have just started reading an devotional series called ‘My Utmost for His Highest’ by Oswald Chambers. This is not a cover to cover read, but more devotional thoughts. It seems to be very promising.

Extract below.

Phil. 1:20-21 ‘I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. ²¹ For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.’

We all tend to feel ashamed if we do not yield to Jesus the areas of our lives, he has asked us to yield to Him.

It is 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 will and heart, not of debate or reasoning. It is an absolute and irrevocalbe surrender of the will at that point.

(v.21) Whether it means life or death-it makes no difference! Paul was determined that nothing would stop him from doing exactly what God wanted.

Shut out every other thought and keep yourself before God in this one thing only – my Utmost for the Highest. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and Him alone.