My Utmost for His Highest
Chapter One
January 1
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 (Moffat)
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 over-weaning 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 ev ... read full excerpt from My Utmost for His Highest ebook