MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 24TH OCTOBER 2024 BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Read My Utmost for His Highest 24th October 2024 (Oswald Chambers Devotional) Thursday Inspirational Message.
TOPIC: The Viewpoint
Thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession. — 2 Corinthians 2:14
For God’s workers, the viewpoint we have to maintain isn’t one that comes near the highest. It is the highest—the viewpoint of God himself. God’s viewpoint, according to Paul, is that we are here for a single purpose: to be “captives in Christ’s triumphal procession.”
Be careful to maintain God’s viewpoint rigorously, every day, minute by minute. Don’t think on the finite. God’s viewpoint is infinite and inviolable; no outside power can touch it. How small are other points of view in comparison! They always place the wrong thing at the center: “I am standing alone, battling for Jesus,” we say. Or, “I have to maintain the cause of Christ and hold this fort for him.” Paul knows who comes first. He says that he is in the procession of a conqueror, and that it doesn’t matter what the difficulties are. He knows that he is always led in triumph.
Is this idea being worked out practically in your life? Paul’s secret joy was that God took him—a red-handed rebel against Jesus Christ—and turned him into a captive. Once Paul belonged to God, he had no other interest; he was here for one thing and one thing only. It is shameful for a Christian to talk about winning a victory. We ought to belong so completely to the Victor that we know it’s his victory, all the time, that only through him are we “more than conquerors” (Romans 8:37). Once we’ve learned this, we become a wonderful refreshment to God, a delight to him wherever we go.
FURTHER READING: Jeremiah 3-5; 1 Timothy 4
Wisdom from Oswald
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
The Moral Foundations of Life, 728 L
Thank you for reading My Utmost For His Highest Devotional 24th October 2024, the most beloved devotional of all time By Oswald Chambers.
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