Tag: Oswald Chambers

  • THE INITIATIVE AGAINST DESPAIR

    My Utmost For His Highest Rise let us be going. Matthew 26:46. The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and when they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense of the irreparable is apt to make us despair, and we say—‘It is all up now, it is no…

  • THE INITIATIVE AGAINST DEPRESSION

    My Utmost For His Highest Arise and eat. 1 Kings 19:5. The angel did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to him, or do anything remarkable; he told Elijah to do the most ordinary thing, viz., to get up and eat. If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it…

  • THE INSPIRATION OF SPIRITUAL INITIATIVE

    My Utmost For His Highest Arise from the dead. Eph. 5:14. All initiative is not inspired. A man may say to you—‘Buck up, take your disinclination by the throat, throw it overboard, and walk out into the thing!’ That is ordinary human initiative. But when the Spirit of God comes in and says, in effect,…

  • AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER?

    My Utmost For His Highest None of us liveth to himself. Romans 14:7. Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible for other souls spiritually before God? For instance, if I allow any private deflection from God in my life, everyone about me suffers. We “sit together in heavenly places.” “Whether one member…

  • THE DISCIPLINE OF HEEDING

    My Utmost For His Highest What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light; and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. Matthew 10:27. At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the…

  • MUST I LISTEN?

    My Utmost For His Highest And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. Exodus 20:19. We do not consciously disobey God, we simply do not heed Him. God has given us His commands; there they are, but we do not…

  • IS YOUR HOPE IN GOD FAINT AND DYING?

    My Utmost For His Highest Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee. Isaiah 26:3 (R.V. marg.). Is your imagination stayed on God or is it starved? The starvation of the imagination is one of the most fruitful sources of exhaustion and sapping in a worker’s life. If you have…

  • IS YOUR IMAGINATION OF GOD STARVED?

    My Utmost For His Highest Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things. Isaiah 40:26. The people of God in Isaiah’s day had starved their imagination by looking on the face of idols, and Isaiah made them look up at the heavens; that is, he made them begin to use…

  • ARE YOU EXHAUSTED SPIRITUALLY?

    My Utmost For His Highest Are you exhausted spiritually? The everlasting God … fainteth not, neither is weary. Isaiah 40:28. Exhaustion means that the vital forces are worn right out. Spiritual exhaustion never comes through sin but only through service, and whether or not you are exhausted will depend upon where you get your supplies.…

  • INSTANTANEOUS AND INSISTENT SANCTIFICATION

    My Utmost For His Highest Instantaneous and insistent sanctification And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly. 1 Thess. 5:23–24 . When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take the term sanctification much too lightly. Are we prepared for what sanctification will cost? It…