My Utmost for His Highest. “. . . my earnest
expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed . . . .” We will
all feel very much ashamed if we do not yield to Jesus the areas of our
lives He has asked us to yield to Him. It’s as if Paul were saying, “My
determined purpose is to be my utmost for His highest— my best for His
glory.” To reach that level of determination is a matter of the will,
not of debate or of reasoning. It is absolute and irrevocable surrender
of the will at that point. An undue amount of thought and consideration
for ourselves is what keeps us from making that decision, although we
cover it up with the pretense that it is others we are considering. When
we think seriously about what it will cost others if we obey the call
of Jesus, we tell God He doesn’t know what our obedience will mean. Keep
to the point— He does know. Shut out every other thought and keep
yourself before God in this one thing only— my utmost for His highest. I
am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and Him alone.
My Unstoppable Determination for His Holiness. “Whether it means life or death-it makes no difference!” (see Philippians 1:21).
Paul was determined that nothing would stop him from doing exactly what
God wanted. But before we choose to follow God’s will, a crisis must
develop in our lives. This happens because we tend to be unresponsive to
God’s gentler nudges. He brings us to the place where He asks us to be
our utmost for Him and we begin to debate. He then providentially
produces a crisis where we have to decide— for or against. That moment
becomes a great crossroads in our lives. If a crisis has come to you on
any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.
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