My Utmost

God granted me great peace in today's selection in "My Utmost For His Highest". What a reminder to keep my eyes on the author and finisher of my faith...and not all the daily stresses and questions of life that are pressing in on me from every direction.

"Look unto Me, and be ye saved." Isaiah 45:22
.... Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ. "Look unto Me."
Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God. There is no salvation in this way, it is not simple enough. "Look unto Me" and - not "you will be saved," but "you are saved." The very thing we look for, we shall find if we will concentrate on Him. We get preoccupied and sulky with God, while all the time He is saying - "Look up and be saved." The difficulties and trials - the casting about in our minds as to what we shall do this summer, or to-morrow, all vanish when we look to God.
Rouse yourself up and look to God. Build your hope on Him. No matter if there are a hundred and one things that press, resolutely exclude them all and look to Him. "Look unto Me," and salvation is, the moment you look.

-Oswald Chambers - My Utmost For His Highest - Jan.22

I had a good peaceful day with Nathan as he accompanied me on my shopping for my grandparents and other miscellanious errands (which ended up taking 5 hours!). Now my aunt, uncle and 3 cousins are here for a couple days on their way back home to Mexico.