Shalom,
Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional by Oswald Chambers is below!
The Will To Loyalty
Choose you this day whom ye will
serve. — Joshua 24:15
Will is the whole man active. I
cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to
obey, and I must will to receive God’s Spirit. When God gives a
vision of truth it is never a question of what He will do, but of what we will
do. The Lord has been putting before us all some big propositions, and the best
thing to do is to remember what you did when you were touched by God before —
the time when you were saved, or first saw Jesus, or realised some truth. It
was easy then to yield allegiance to God; recall those moments now as the
Spirit of God brings before you some new proposition.
“Choose you this day whom ye will
serve.” It is a deliberate calculation, not something into which you drift
easily; and everything else is in abeyance until you decide. The proposition is
between you and God; do not confer with flesh and blood about it. With every
new proposition other people get more and more “out of it,” that is where the
strain comes. God allows the opinion of His saints to matter to you, and yet
you are brought more and more out of the certainty that others understand the
step you are taking. You have no business to find out where God is leading, the
only thing God will explain to you is Himself.
Profess to Him — “I will be loyal.”
Immediately you choose to be loyal to Jesus Christ, you are a witness against
yourself. Don’t consult other Christians, but profess before Him — “I will
serve Thee.” Will to be loyal — and give other people credit for
being loyal too.
AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Desert Song":
Shalom in Him!