Tag: Oswald Chambers

  • THE VOCATION OF THE NATURAL LIFE

    My Utmost For His Highest But when it pleased God … to reveal His son in me … Gal. 1:15–16 . The call of God is not a call to any particular service; my interpretation of it may be, because contact with the nature of God has made me realize what I would like to…

  • THE VOICE OF THE NATURE OF GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? Isaiah 6:8. When we speak of the call of God, we are apt to forget the most important feature, viz., the nature of the One Who calls. There is the call of the sea, the call of the…

  • DO YOU WALK IN WHITE?

    My Utmost For His Highest Buried with Him … that … even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4. No one enters into the experience of entire sanctification without going through a ‘white funeral’—the burial of the old life. If there has never been this crisis of death, sanctification is nothing…

  • CALLED OF GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. Isaiah 6:8. God did not address the call to Isaiah; Isaiah overheard God saying—“Who will go for us?” The call of God is not for the special few, it is for everyone.…

  • HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ALONE WITH GOD?

    My Utmost For His Highest When they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples. Mark 4:34. Our Solitude with Him. Jesus does not take us alone and expound things to us all the time; He expounds things to us as we can understand them. Other lives are parables. God is making us spell…

  • WHAT MY OBEDIENCE TO GOD COSTS OTHER PEOPLE

    My Utmost For His Highest They laid hold upon one Simon, … and on him they laid the cross Luke 23:26. If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does…

  • THE OPENED SIGHT

    My Utmost For His Highest To open their eyes, … that they may receive … Acts 26:18. This verse is the grandest condensation of the propaganda of a disciple of Jesus Christ in the whole of the New Testament. The first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the words—“that they may receive remission…

  • INTERCESSORY INTROSPECTION

    My Utmost For His Highest And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless. 1 Thess. 5:23. “Your whole spirit …” The great mystical work of the Holy Spirit is in the dim regions of our personality which we cannot get at. Read the 139th Psalm; the Psalmist implies—‘Thou art…

  • DOES MY SACRIFICE LIVE?

    My Utmost For His Highest And Abraham built an altar … and bound Isaac his son. Genesis 22:9. This incident is a picture of the blunder we make in thinking that the final thing God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. What God wants is the sacrifice through death which enables us to…

  • INTIMATE WITH JESUS

    My Utmost For His Highest Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known Me? John 14:9. These words are not spoken as a rebuke, nor even with surprise; Jesus is leading Philip on. The last One with whom we get intimate is Jesus. Before Pentecost the disciples knew Jesus as…