Tag: Oswald Chambers

  • DO YE NOW BELIEVE?

    My Utmost For His Highest By this we believe … Jesus answered, Do ye now believe? John 16:30–31 . ‘Now we believe.’ Jesus says—‘Do you? The time is coming when you will leave Me alone.’ Many a Christian worker has left Jesus Christ alone and gone into work from a sense of duty, or from…

  • THE IMPOVERISHED MINISTRY OF JESUS

    The impoverished ministry of Jesus From whence then hast Thou that living water? John 4:11. “The well is deep”—and a great deal deeper than the Samaritan woman knew! Think of the depths of human nature, of human life, think of the depths of the ‘wells’ in you. Have you been impoverishing the ministry of Jesus…

  • INFERIOR MISGIVINGS ABOUT JESUS

    My Utmost For His Highest Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with. John 4:11. ‘I am impressed with the wonder of what God says, but He cannot expect me really to live it out in the details of my life!’ When it comes to facing Jesus Christ on His own merits, our attitude is one…

  • THE DESTITUTION OF SERVICE

    My Utmost For His Highest Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 2 Cor. 12:15. Natural love expects some return, but Paul says—‘I do not care whether you love me or not, I am willing to destitute myself completely, not merely for your sakes, but that I may get you…

  • THE DELIGHT OF SACRIFICE

    My Utmost For His Highest I will very gladly spend and be spent for you. 2 Cor. 12:15. When the Spirit of God has shed abroad the love of God in our hearts, we begin deliberately to identify ourselves with Jesus Christ’s interests in other people, and Jesus Christ is interested in every kind of…

  • THE DETERMINATION TO SERVE

    My Utmost For His Highest The son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. Matthew 20:28. Paul’s idea of service is the same as our Lord’s: “I am among you as He that serveth”; “ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.” We have the idea that a man called to the Ministry…

  • THE DISCIPLINE OF SPIRITUAL TENACITY

    My Utmost For His Highest Be still, and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10. Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to…

  • HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CARRIED AWAY FROM HIM?

    My Utmost For His Highest She hath wrought a good work on Me. Mark 14:6. If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always wise, always sensible and calculating, never carried beyond itself, it is not love at all. It may be affection, it…

  • THE INITIATIVE AGAINST DREAMING

    My Utmost For His Highest Arise, let us go hence. John 14:31. Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. After Our Lord had said those wonderful things to His disciples, we might have expected that He would tell…

  • THE INITIATIVE AGAINST DRUDGERY

    My Utmost For His Highest Arise, shine. Isaiah 60:1. We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not; but immediately we arise we find He is there. Whenever God inspires, the initiative is a moral one. We…