My Utmost for HIS Highest.

2 Corinthians 4:1-2 -- 

"THEREfore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.  But we have RENOUNCED THE HIDDEN THINGS OF DISHONESTY."  

As I stop and think about my thoughts, there are so many things that are hidden from the light in my heart.  Bad thoughts about people that I never say out loud are hidden things of dishonesty.  
Things like envy, strife, and jealousy all arise in my mind and they are sinful thoughts.  


Romans 6:19 reassures us of our sinful nature: 

"I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations.  For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification."  

This is so reassuring!  We sin because because its our nature. However, we can do things to control our thoughts and to set ourselves apart from those that are still slaves to sin. 

1 Peter 4:2 tells us that 

"Since Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the WILL OF GOD.   

It is so reassuring to me to know that God has rescued us from that bondage that we once had to sin!  No longer am I bound to that, now I'm bound to God and that means I must live that out!
In a world that is filled with the most that one could imagine, we must

Maintain a continual watchfulness so that nothing of which you would be ashamed of arises in your life.

I am:

Gods child.

That is my identity and my goal in life is to live that out to the fullest.

my UPMOST for HIS  highest.

Thats what we should strive for. Living to serve the God who gave up everything for some lowly humans that give him nothing in return.

Serve. Love. Devote.