MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - February 5^th & 6th.

ARE YOU READY TO BE OFFERED? Part One

"Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and serviceof your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Philippians 2:17

Are you willing to be offered for the workof the faithful - to pour out your lifeblood as a libation on the sacrifice of the faith of others? Or do you say - "I am not going to be offered up just yet, I do not want Godto choose my work. I want to choose the sceneryof my own sacrifice; I want to have the right kind of people watching and saying, 'Well done.'

It is one thing to go on the lonely way with dignified heroism, but quite another thing if the linemapped out for you by Godmeans being a door-mat under other people's feet. Suppose Godwants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased" - are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a dropin a bucket - to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the lifeyou served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministeredunto, but to minister? Some saints cannot do menial workand remain saints because it is beneath their dignity.

ARE YOU READY TO BE OFFERED? Part Two

"I am already being poured out as a drink offering." 2 Timothy 4:6

"I am ready to be offered." It is a transaction of will, not of sentiment. TellGodyou are ready to be offered; then let the consequences be what they may, there is no strandof complaint now, no matter what Godchooses. Godputs you through the crisis in private, no one person can help an other. Externally the lifemay be the same; the difference is in will. Go through the crisis in will, then when it comes externally there will he no thought of the cost. If you do not transact in will with Godalong this line, you will end in awakening sympathy for yourself.

"Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the hornsof the altar." The altar means fire- burning and purification and insulationfor one purpose only, the destruction of every affinity that Godhas not started and of every attachment that is not an attachment in God.You do not destroy it, Goddoes; you bind the sacrifice to the hornsof the altar; and see that you do not give way to self- pity when the firebegins. After this way of fire, there is nothing that oppresses or depresses. When the crisis arises, you realize that things cannot touchyou as they used to do. What is your way of fire?

Tell Godyou are ready to be offered, and Godwill prove Himself to be all you ever dreamedHe would be.

Oswald Chambers