I’ve been reading Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His Highest these past ten years now, and I always return to his meditations, and find wisdom. I may not always agree with some of his thoughts but he offers insights that are unflinchingly honest, and profoundly true. Here are some exerpts taken from the November 22 devotional called “Shallow and Profound.”
"Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow aspects of your life are not ordained by God; they are ordained by Him equally as much as the profound...”
"To be shallow is not a sign of being sinful, nor is shallowness an indication that there is no depth to your life at all. The ocean has a shore. Even the shallow thins of life, such as eating, and drinking, walking and talking, are ordained by God. These are all things our Lord did...We are safeguarded by the shallow things of life. We have to live the surface, commonsense life in a commonsense way. Then when God gives us the deeper things, they are obviously separated from the shallow concerns...We are so nauseatingly serious, so desperately interested in our own character and reputation, we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of life. Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.”
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