MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 1ST JANUARY 2026 BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Read My Utmost for His Highest 1st January 2026 (Oswald Chambers Devotional) Thursday Inspirational Message.
TOPIC: Let Us Keep To The Point
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. —Philippians 1:20
My utmost for his highest. To be all for God; to act with boldness, expressing Christ in every word and deed. This, Paul says, is how to walk through life unashamed.
The journey isn’t a journey of reason or debate. We can’t think or argue our way through it. It is a journey of surrender, of abandoning ourselves to God, absolutely and forever.
There will always be good reasons not to. We debate with God, telling him that we are concerned for others, that if we start on the journey, our loved ones will suffer. Really, we are worried for ourselves, for our own comfort and safety. We tell God he doesn’t know what he’s asking.
Keep to the point: he does know. Shut out your worries and stand before God with one thing only in your heart: my utmost for his highest. Determine to be absolutely and entirely for him and him alone.
My best for his glory. At first, the call comes gently. Then it grows louder, until finally God produces a crisis in our lives that demands we make a choice. For or against; yes or no; stay or go.
Has the crisis come to you? If it has, go. Paul, like Christ, would let nothing deter him, whether it meant life or death. As a new year dawns, let us embrace this same spirit, surrendering all with boldness and with joy.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Genesis 1–3; Matthew 1
WISDOM FROM OSWALD
It is an easy thing to argue from precedent because it makes everything simple, but it is a risky thing to do. Give God “elbow room”; let Him come into His universe as He pleases. If we confine God in His working to religious people or to certain ways, we place ourselves on an equality with God.
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