Tag: Oswald Chambers

  • IS IT NOT IN THE LEAST LIKELY

    My Utmost For His Highest For Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. 1 Kings 2:28. Joab stood the big test, he remained absolutely loyal and true to David and did not turn after the fascinating and ambitious Absalom, but yet towards the end of his life he turned after the…

  • READINESS

    My Utmost For His Highest God called unto him … and he said, Here am I. Exodus 3:4. When God speaks, many of us are like men in a fog, we give no answer. Moses’ reply revealed that he was somewhere. Readiness means a right relationship to God and a knowledge of where we are…

  • NECK OR NOTHING

    My Utmost For His Highest Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him …, and did cast himself into the sea. John 21:7. Have you ever had a crisis in which you deliberately and emphatically and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of will. You…

  • CAN YOU COME DOWN?

    My Utmost For His Highest While ye have light, believe in the light. John 12:36. We all have moments when we feel better than our best, and we say—‘I feel fit for anything; if only I could be like this always!’ We are not meant to be. Those moments are moments of insight which we…

  • THE RELAPSE OF CONCENTRATION

    My Utmost For His Highest But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. 2 Chron. 15:17. Asa was incomplete in his external obedience, he was right in the main but not entirely right. Beware of the thing of which you say—‘Oh, that…

  • INSPIRED INVINCIBILITY

    Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me. Matthew 11:29. “Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth.” How petty our complaining is! Our Lord begins to bring us into the place where we can have communion with Him, and we groan and say—‘Oh Lord, let me be like other people!’ Jesus is asking us to…

  • WHAT TO DO UNDER THE CONDITIONS

    My Utmost For His Highest Cast thy burden upon the Lord. Psalm 55:22. We must distinguish between the burden-bearing that is right and the burden-bearing that is wrong. We ought never to bear the burden of sin or of doubt, but there are burdens placed on us by God which He does not intend to…

  • MORAL DOMINION

    My Utmost For His Highest Death hath no more dominion over Him … in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God. Romans 6:9–11 . Co-Eternal Life. Eternal life was the life which Jesus Christ exhibited on the human plane, and…

  • MORAL DIVINITY

    My Utmost To His Highest For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection. Romans 6:5. Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have been through crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a decided likeness to Him. The incoming of the Spirit…

  • MORAL DECISION ABOUT SIN

    My Utmost For His Highest Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Romans 6:6. Co-Crucifixion. Have I made this decision about sin—that it must be killed right out in me? It takes a long time to come…