My Utmost For His Highest 13 July 2024: The Price of Vision
My Utmost For His Highest 13 July 2024: The Price of Vision
READ TODAY’S MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST DEVOTIONAL BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Topic: The Price of Vision
BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Scripture: In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. —Isaiah 6:1
My Utmost For His Highest 13 July 2024 Message:
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 King Uzziahs—our friends and personal heroes—so that he can take his rightful place in our lives. Often when this happens, we faint and fail and get discouraged.
Take it to heart: In the year I lost the person who held the place of God in my life, what did I do? Did I give up on everything? Did I become sick and disheartened? Or did I see the Lord?
My ability to see God depends upon the state of my character. Character determines revelation. Before I can say, “I saw the Lord,” there must be something corresponding to God in my character, something I received when I was born again in the Spirit. Until I am born again and begin to see the kingdom of God, I see through the cloud of my own prejudices. I need an internal purification as well as the surgical operation of external events. It must be God first, God second, and God third, until my life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any importance.
Whom seek they or whom find? for in all the world
There is none but thee, my God, there is none but thee.
—Frederic W. H. Myers
Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to seek none but him.
Bible Reading: Psalms 7-9; Acts 18
