Category: Oswald Chambers

  • ACQUAINTANCE WITH GRIEF

    My Utmost For His Highest A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isaiah 53:3. We are not acquainted with grief in the way in which Our Lord was acquainted with it; we endure it, we get through it, but we do not become intimate with it. At the beginning of life we do not…

  • THE UNDEVIATING TEST

    My Utmost For His Highest For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Matthew 7:2. This statement is not a haphazard guess, it is an eternal law of God. Whatever judgment you give, it is measured to you again. There…

  • THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR

    My Utmost For His Highest But ye are … a royal priesthood. 1 Peter 2:9. By what right do we become “a royal priesthood”? By the right of the Atonement. Are we prepared to leave ourselves resolutely alone and to launch out into the priestly work of prayer? The continual grubbing on the inside to…

  • HAVE YOU COME TO “WHEN” YET?

    My Utmost For His Highest And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Job 42:10. The plaintive, self-centred, morbid kind of prayer, a dead-set that I want to be right, is never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be right with God is…

  • THE SERVICE OF PASSIONATE DEVOTION

    My Utmost For His HIghest Lovest thou Me? Feed My sheep. John 21:16. Jesus did not say—Make converts to your way of thinking, but look after My sheep, see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Me. We count as service what we do in the way of Christian work; Jesus Christ calls service…

  • DON’T THINK NOW, TAKE THE ROAD

    My Utmost For His Highest And Peter … walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid. Matthew 14:29–30 . The wind was actually boisterous, the waves were actually high, but Peter did not see them at first. He did not reckon with them, he simply…

  • THE UNCRITICAL TEMPER

    My Utmost For His Highest Judge not, that ye be not judged. Matthew 7:1. Jesus says regarding judging—Don’t. The average Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of the ordinary faculty of man; but in the spiritual domain nothing is accomplished by criticism. The effect of criticism is a dividing up…

  • WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS

    My Utmost For His Highest Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend … I have called you friends. John 15:13, 15. Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. Peter said—“I will lay down my life…

  • GET A MOVE ON

    My Utmost For His Highest In the Matter of Drudgery. And beside this, … add. 2 Peter 1:5. You have inherited the Divine nature, says Peter (v. 4), now screw your attention down and form habits, give diligence, concentrate. “Add” means all that character means. No man is born either naturally or supernaturally with character;…

  • GET A MOVE ON

    My Utmost For His Highest In the Matter of Determination. Abide in Me. John 15:4. The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by the Atonement, then I have to construct with patience the way of thinking that is exactly in accordance with my Lord. God will not make me think like Jesus, I have…