..."My Utmost for His Highest"[Oswald Chambers]

I have recently begun using the daily devotional, "My Utmost for His Highest"...
along with the "God Calling" Journal which I have read daily for many years...

God has used the "G.C J" to greatly bless me and reveal His way to me...
and the addition of the Chambers devotional has been very enlightening...



God has been dealing with me and my relationships...
as well as my shortcomings in the area of stewardship...
and my inability to make Him ,"Lord" in all areas of my life...
for several years now...

as I have struggled to deal with my deficiencies in these areas...
I have become convinced that my inability to loose weight...
handle money, find a job & have positive relationships...
were all somehow connected...

and that if I could understand how...
then things would get better in all those areas...

through both of these devotionals...
I've gradually begun to understand several important truths...

* I can not plan anything without God...
* I must not have any supply but God...
* reliance on myself, anyone else or anything else does not work...
* God is not planning a peaceful, spiritual retirement for me...
* I must deal honestly with the results of my actions...
* there is a price to be paid...

I'd like to share today's thoughts from the Chambers book...



"In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord..."[Isaiah 6:1]

"Our soul's personal history with God is often an account of the death of our heroes...
Over & over again, God has to remove our friends to put Himself in their place...
and that is when we falter, fail & become discouraged...

When the person, who represented for me all that God was, "left"...
did I give up on life?... become ill or disheartened?...
or did I do as Isaiah did & "see God" ?...

My vision of God is dependent on the condition of my character...
My character determines whether or not truth can be revealed to me...
Before I can say,"I saw the Lord"...
there must be something in my character that conforms to the likeness of God...



Until I am born again & really begin to see the kingdom of God...
I only see from the perspective of my own biases...
What I need is God's surgical procedure- His use of external circumstances...
to bring about internal purification...



Your priorities must be God first, God second & God third...
until your life is continually face to face with God...
and no one else is taken into account, whatsoever...

Your prayer will then be...
"In all the world there is no one but You, dear God;
there is no one but You...

Keep paying the price...

Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision..."

[July,13,"the Price of the Vision", "My Utmost for His Highest",Oswald Chambers]

God grant me the grace to see Him as my only supply...