My Utmost for His Highest - 12/15
If you haven't read My Utmost for His Highest, you're missing out. It's a terrific devotional compiled from the sermons of Oswald Chambers. The following devotional (Dec 15) has meant the most to me as a writer. Chambers encapsulates what it means to be a Christian writer so well. Our task is not to repeat what we have learned verbatim, but to make it our own and share it with others. In doing so we enable someone else to make our story their own, and continue passing it along.
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My Utmost for His Highest - December 15 Title: Approved Unto God Key Verse: Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Click link below to study this verse: 2 Timothy 2:15
If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the, days of his life. Struggle to re-express some truth of God to your self, and God will use that expression to some one else. Go through the winepress of God where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle to get expression experimentally, then there will come a time when that expression will become the very wine of strengthening to someone else; but if you say lazily - "I am not going to struggle to express this thing for myself, I will borrow what I say," the expression will not only be of no use to you, but of no use to anyone. Try to state to yourself what you feel implicitly to be God's truth, and you give God a chance to pass it on to someone else through you. Always make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not ours until we make it ours by suffering. The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Taken from 'My Utmost for His Highest', by Oswald Chambers. © l935 by Dodd Mead & Co., renewed © 1963 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn., Ltd., and is used by permission of Barbour Publishing, Uhrichsville, Ohio. All rights reserved.
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