The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections  Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page May 30  Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest   Luke 9:61  “And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell…” But God Saw Me  For most of my life, I lived in the place Chambers describes — the place of “Yes, Lord… but.” Yes, Lord, but I’m afraid. Yes, Lord, but I don’t understand. Yes, Lord, but I’ve been left before. Yes, Lord, but I don’t know how to trust You. I didn’t realize how deeply that hesitation was rooted in me until the Lord brought back a childhood memory — a moment when I fell on a school playground, was hurt, and no one noticed. That day planted something in me: If I don’t take care of myself, no one will. I carried that belief into adulthood, and without knowing it, I carried it into my relationship with God. For years I believed I was unseen, unheard, and unnoticed — not just by people, but by Go...