February 3: 1 Corinthians 4:13 - Are You Willing to Become the "Filth of the World?" (Today's Reflection from My Utmost For His Highest)
Daily Bible Verse : 1 Corinthians 4:13 "We have been made as the filth of the world ...." There are words in Scripture that refuse to be softened. Paul’s confession—“We have been made as the filth of the world”—is one of them. He isn’t exaggerating, dramatizing, or indulging in self-pity. He is describing what happens when a life is truly separated to the gospel of God. Consecration always places a person where Christ Himself stood: misunderstood, misjudged, and often unwanted. Chambers reminds us that this is not the fruit of personal holiness but the evidence of surrender. Holiness is God’s work in us. Consecration is our “yes” to being poured out for Him, even when the pouring is costly. The fiery trials that come to those who belong to Christ are not strange. They are not signs of failure or abandonment. They are the places where our instinct for self-protection is exposed. We want to stay clean, unbothered, unmisunderstood. We want to avoid the mire. But the gospel does...