If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life. For over eighty years Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest has been one of the most widely read books in the Christian world.
But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future.
When there is no major difficulty to overcome, no vision from God, nothing wonderful or beautiful- just the everyday activities of life- do I hear God’s assurance even in these? “I will never…forsake you.” Sometimes it is not the difficulty of life but the drudgery of it that makes me think God will forsake me. Have I really let God say to me that He will never leave me? If I have not truly heard this assurance of God, then let me listen again. My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language Gift Edition (A Daily Devotional with 366 Bible-Based Readings) (Authorized Oswald Chambers Publications) 1489. “I will never leave you…”- not for any reason not my sin, selfishness, stubbornness, nor waywardness. My Utmost for His Highest: Updated Language Paperback (Authorized Oswald Chambers Publications) 699. What can man do to me?’ ” ( Hebrews 13:5-6). What line of thinking do my thoughts take? Do I turn to what God says or to my own fears? Am I simply repeating what God says, or am I learning to truly hear Him and then to respond after I have heard what He says? “For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper I will not fear.
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