Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is something we should be gauging ourself on every day!
The Servant’s Primary Goal
We make it our aim…to be well pleasing to Him. —2
Corinthians 5:9
“We make it our aim….” It requires a conscious decision and
effort to keep our primary goal constantly in front of us. It means holding
ourselves to the highest priority year in and year out; not making our first
priority to win souls, or to establish churches, or to have revivals, but
seeking only “to be well pleasing to Him.” It is not a lack of spiritual
experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes
focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God
to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was
like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch
a look of approval from his Conductor.
Any goal we have that diverts us even to the slightest degree
from the central goal of being “approved to God” (2 Timothy 2:15) may result in
our rejection from further service for Him. When you discern where the goal
leads, you will understand why it is so necessary to keep “looking unto Jesus”
(Hebrews 12:2). Paul spoke of the importance of controlling his own body so
that it would not take him in the wrong direction. He said, “I discipline my
body and bring it into subjection, lest…I myself should become disqualified” (1
Corinthians 9:27).
I must learn to relate everything to the primary goal,
maintaining it without interruption. My worth to God publicly is measured by
what I really am in my private life. Is my primary goal in life to please Him
and to be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how lofty it
may sound?
AMEN! We are born again into the family of God, by the Spirit of God, and we have our citizenship in Heaven with a mandate as ambassadors of Heaven to earth! Our first responsibility is to develop and maintain our FIRST LOVE! Our intimate FELLOWSHIP with the ONE Who gave it ALL for us! Find what HE has called, anointed and appointed you to do, as you spend that one on one time in His presence, and then let everything else in your life come next! you will be SO glad when you do! THAT is one of the keys to living in His 'joy unspeakable and full of Glory! 1 Peter 2:8:8 Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Rhythms of Grace":
Shalom in Him!
