day no. 16,243: jettison all but Jesus

“The Spirit of God witnesses to the redemption of our Lord, and to nothing else. He cannot witness to our reason… If we are trying to make Him witness to our reason, it is no wonder that we are in darkness and uncertainty. Throw it all overboard, trust in Him, and He will give you the witness of the Spirit.” - Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

Jettison all but Jesus. Whatever you think may save you won't and it can't unless you refuse to look to it for salvation. As long as you are looking for something other than the cross in front of you, you won't see salvation. But look there and you see it, not in part, but the whole.

Isaiah 45:22

Look unto me, and be ye saved,

all the ends of the earth:

for I am God, and there is none else.

There is nowhere else to turn and nowhere else to look if salvation is what you long to see. Anyone anywhere can turn and look to Him and see it. But it requires you to stop looking where you're used to gazing. Whatever you looked to before for salvation must be abandoned.

Philippians 3:7-9

Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.

The boat free from everything except Christ will not capsize. He will keep it afloat and guide it through the storm. A heart that has jettisoned every other source of safety or salvation except Jesus shall be saved. At first, there are easy things to throw overboard, but eventually you get to the best that you save for last. That which you hope to hold on to, that which you fear to let go of. These are the last things that must be tossed overboard before you can truly retain any of them.

Matthew 6:33

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you