Category: Oswald Chambers

  • THE UNDETECTED SACREDNESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES

    My Utmost For His Highest All things work together for good to them that love God. Romans 8:28. The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings you into circumstances that you cannot understand at all,…

  • PROGRAM OF BELIEF

    My Utmost For His Highest Believest thou this? John 11:26. Martha believed in the power at the disposal of Jesus Christ; she believed that if He had been present He could have healed her brother. She also believed that Jesus had a peculiar intimacy with God and that whatever He asked of God, God would…

  • PARTAKERS OF HIS SUFFERINGS

    My Utmost For His Highest Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings. 1 Peter 4:13. If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a multitude of experiences that are not meant for you at all; they are meant to make you useful in His hands, and to…

  • THE AUTHORITY OF REALITY

    My Utmost For His Highest Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. James 4:8. It is essential to give people a chance of acting on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual, you cannot act for him, it must be his own deliberate act, but the…

  • A BOND-SLAVE OF JESUS

    My Utmost For His Highest I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. Gal. 2:20. These words mean the breaking of my independence with my own hand and surrendering to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it…

  • AUTHORITY AND INDEPENDENCE

    My Utmost For His Highest If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments. John 14:15 (R.V.). Our Lord never insists upon obedience; He tells us very emphatically what we ought to do, but He never takes means to make us do it. We have to obey Him out of oneness of spirit. That is…

  • YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN

    My Utmost For His Highest Know ye not that … ye are not your own? 1 Cor. 6:19. There is no such thing as a private life—‘a world within the world’—for a man or woman who is brought into fellowship with Jesus Christ’s sufferings. God breaks up the private life of His saints, and makes…

  • DISCERNMENT OF FAITH

    My Utmost For His Highest Faith as a grain of mustard seed.… Matthew 17:20 We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, it may be so in the initial stages; but we do not earn anything by faith. Faith brings us into right relationship with God and gives God His opportunity. God…

  • FAITH

    Without faith it is impossible to please Him. Hebrews 11:6. Faith in antagonism to common sense is fanaticism, and common sense in antagonism to faith is rationalism. The life of faith brings the two into a right relation. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of…

  • SUBSTITUTION

    My Utmost For His Highest He hath made Him to be sin for us, … that we might be made the righteousness of God.… 2 Cor. 5:21. The modern view of the death of Jesus is that He died for our sins out of sympathy. The New Testament view is that He bore our sin…