Shalom,

Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional by Oswald Chambers has a message that is often missed by many, but is of vital importance to our continued intimate fellowship with JESUS! 

The Price Of Vision

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. — Isaiah 6:1

Our soul’s history with God is frequently the history of the “passing of the hero.” Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged. Take it personally: In the year that the one who stood to me for all that God was, died — I gave up everything? I became ill? I got disheartened? or — I saw the Lord?

My vision of God depends upon the state of my character. Character determines revelation. Before I can say “I saw also the Lord,” there must be something corresponding to God in my character. Until I am born again and begin to see the Kingdom of God, I see along the line of my prejudices only; I need the surgical operation of external events and an internal purification.

It must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever. “In all the world there is none but thee, my God, there is none but thee.”

Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.

AMEN! I have shared many times the Hillsong Kids' praise song "My Number One", which is addressed to JESUS about HIM being the MOST important person in our lives! Even parents should relaize that when JESUS is their children's top priority, THEY will be in their proper place also! If our children are disrespecting their GODLY parents, then JESUS is most certainly NOT their "#1"! Here is that song, to remind YOU, as a child of the Living God, to make HIM yours! 

Shalom in Him!