MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 5TH FEBRUARY 2025 BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Read My Utmost for His Highest 5th February 2025 (Oswald Chambers Devotional) Wednesday Inspirational Message.
TOPIC: Are You Ready to Be Offered?
I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith. — Philippians 2:17
Are you ready to be offered, to become broken bread and poured-out wine in the hands of the Lord? Or are you full of hesitation, saying to yourself, “I’m not going to be offered up just yet. I’m not going to let God choose my work or the setting of my sacrifice. I’ll only offer myself when the ‘right’ kind of people are watching, so they can congratulate me and say, ‘Well done’”?
It’s one thing to go about God’s business unnoticed, walking a lonely path and filled with dignified heroism; it’s quite another to become a doormat under other people’s feet. Sometimes, the role God wants you to play is the lowly role. He wants to teach you to say, “I know how to be humbled.”
Are you ready to be offered up like this? To be just a drop in the bucket, so hopelessly insignificant that no one even thinks of you in connection to the deeds you’ve done? Are you willing to spend and be spent, not seeking to be served but to serve (Matthew 20:28)?
Some saints are too holy for menial work. Are you one of them? Or will you decide that nothing God gives you to do is beneath you?
Further Reading: Exodus 36-38; Matthew 23:1-22
Wisdom from Oswald
Civilization is based on principles which imply that the passing moment is permanent. The only permanent thing is God, and if I put anything else as permanent, I become atheistic. I must build only on God (John 14:6).
The Highest Good—Thy Great Redemption, 565 L