Oswald

My Utmost for His Highest is a daily devo written Oswald Chambers. My dad used to read that book, and another called Streams in the Desert, pretty much every day. From time to time, I will peruse those books, as many people have been touched by these books.

Oswald was a Chaplain for the British during WW1. He had been assigned to be close to the raging battle. The father and husband in him, did not want to have the fam join him there because he thought it was too dangerous, yet he sought God about it anyway. He felt the Lord telling him to bring them to the danger zone with him, and his wife felt the same way. He was killed in battle just a short time later.

At first glance and my first thoughts after hearing this was; what an idiot, he endangered the lives of his whole family. What if they had been killed as well?

God says "My thoughts are not your thoughts, my ways are not your ways." The reason we have those books today is because his wife was there during that time, writing down things he spoke.

Sometimes having the faith to trust God ends up being our utmost for His highest.