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Daily
Devotional Reading from
My
Utmost for His Highest
by
Oswald Chambers:
November
22
Shallow
and profound
Whether
therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory
of God. 1Co_10:31.
Beware of
allowing yourself to think that the shallow concerns of life are not
ordained of God; they are as much of God as the profound. It is not
your devotion to God that makes you refuse to be shallow, but your
wish to impress other people with the fact that you are not shallow,
which is a sure sign that you are a spiritual prig. Be careful of the
production of contempt in yourself, it always comes along this line,
and causes you to go about as a walking rebuke to other people
because they are more shallow than you are. beware of posing as a
profound person; God became a Baby.
To be shallow
is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there
are no deeps; the ocean has a shore. The shallow amenities of life,
eating and drinking, walking and talking, are all ordained by God.
These are the things in which Our Lord lived. He lived in them as the
Son of God, and He said that “the disciple is not above his
Master.”
Our safeguard
is in the shallow things. We have to live the surface commonsense
life in a commonsense way; when the deeper things come, God gives
them to us apart from the shallow concerns. Never show the deeps to
anyone but God. We are so abominably serious, so desperately
interested in our own characters, that we refuse to behave like
Christians in the shallow concerns of life.
Determinedly
take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have
to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever
known, is yourself.
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