Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year (Grand Rapids, MI: Oswald Chambers Publications; Marshall Pickering, 1986). The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense...
I wanted to share this excerpt from today’s entry from Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His Highest because it has as direct correlation to what I shared in this post. Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Luke 18:31. Jerusalem stands in the life...
From My Utmost for His Highest; July 30 (Oswald Chambers, emphasis original) Jesus did not commit Himself unto them … for He knew what was in man. John 2:24–25 Disillusionment means that there are no more false judgments in life. To be undeceived by...
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. — Matthew 16:25 I continue to be amazed by the depth of holy wisdom from Oswald Chambers. The first line of the July 11th devo from My Utmost for His...
From My Utmost for His Highest Have you the slightest reliance on any thing other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any particular in this new proposition...
I know I’ve been posting a lot of Oswald Chambers lately, but it’s SO good that I can’t help but share more. This is one of the best ones I’ve read (today’s entry). The grace you had yesterday will not do for to-day...
I’m on vacation (Outer Banks, NC). So here’s a great devo from the classically dependent Oswald Chambers. Judge not, that ye be not judged. –Matthew 7:1. Jesus says regarding judging—Don’t. The average Christian is the most penetratingly...
Once again, Oswald Chambers gives us an excellent thought. That ye may know what is the hope of His calling … Eph. 1:18. Remember what you are saved for—that the Son of God might be manifested in your mortal flesh. Bend the whole energy of your...
One of my favorite My Utmost entries is from Dec 2, so I had to share it today: It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do; God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. The emphasis of holiness movements...
A few days ago I wrote about Oswald Chambers (Life After Sanctification). Today’s post is from my wife’s blog which is directly from Chambers. It was so good I had to share it. God called Jesus Christ to what seemed absolute disaster...