Tag: Oswald Chambers

  • WINNING INTO FREEDOM

    My Utmost For His Highest If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:36. If there is any remnant of individual conceit left, it always says—‘I can’t.’ Personality never says—‘I can’t,’ but simply absorbs and absorbs. Personality always wants more and more. It is the way we are built.…

  • THE EXTERNAL GOAL

    My Utmost For His Highest By Myself have I sworn, said the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, … that in blessing I will bless thee.… Genesis 22:15–19 . Abraham has reached the place where he is in touch with the very nature of God, he understands now the reality of God. ‘My…

  • STILL HUMAN!

    My Utmost For His Highest Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Cor. 10:31. The great marvel of the Incarnation slips into ordinary childhood’s life; the great marvel of the Transfiguration vanishes in the devil-possessed valley; the glory of the Resurrection descends into a breakfast on the sea-shore. This is not…

  • WHAT IS THAT TO THEE?

    My Utmost For His Highest Lord, what shall this man do?… What is that to thee? Follow thou Me. John 21:21, 22. One of our severest lessons comes from the stubborn refusal to see that we must not interfere in other people’s lives. It takes a long time to realize the danger of being an…

  • DISCOVERING DIVINE DESIGNS

    My Utmost For His Highest I being in the way, the Lord led me.… Genesis 24:27. We have to be so one with God that we do not continually need to ask for guidance. Sanctification means that we are made the children of God, and the natural life of a child is obedience—until he wishes…

  • THE TRANSFIGURED LIFE

    If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Cor. 5:17. What idea have you of the salvation of your soul? The experience of salvation means that in your actual life things are really altered, you no longer look at things…

  • THE SUPREME CLIMB

    My Utmost For His Highest Take now thy son … Genesis 22:2. God’s command is—Take now, not presently. It is extraordinary how we debate! We know a thing is right, but we try to find excuses for not doing it at once. To climb to the height God shows can never be done presently, it…

  • FELLOWSHIP IN THE GOSPEL

    My Utmost For His Highest Fellow labourer in the gospel of Christ. 1 Thess. 3:2. After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in life is, because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Ghost. He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used…

  • SACRAMENTAL SACRIFICE

    My Utmost For His Highest Who now rejoice in My sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ.… Col. 1:24. The Christian worker has to be a sacramental ‘go-between,’ to be so identified with his Lord and the reality of His Redemption that He can continually bring His…

  • THE UNRIVALLED POWER OF PRAYER

    My Utmost For His Highest We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Romans 8:26. We realize that we are energized by the Holy Spirit for prayer; we know what it is to pray in the Spirit; but…