Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His
Highest – Friday, 22 November 2013
“Shallow and Profound”
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye
do, do all to the glory of God.(1 Corinthians 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 common-sense life in a common-sense 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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