Tag: Oswald Chambers

  • REPENTANCE

    My Utmost For His Highest For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2 Cor. 7:10. Conviction of sin is best portrayed in the words— ‘My sins, my sins, my Saviour.How sad on Thee they fall.’ Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an…

  • THE BOW IN THE CLOUD

    My Utmost For His Highest I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. Genesis 9:13. It is the will of God that human beings should get into moral relationship with Him, and His covenants are for this purpose. ‘Why does…

  • THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST

    My Utmost For His Highest Only in the throne will I be greater than thou. Genesis 41:40. I have to account to God for the way in which I rule my body under His domination. Paul said he did not “frustrate the grace of God”—make it of no effect. The grace of God is absolute,…

  • THE LAW OF ANTAGONISM

    My Utmost For His Highest To him that overcometh.… Rev. 2:7. Life without war is impossible either in nature or in grace. The basis of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual life is antagonism. This is the open fact of life. Health is the balance between physical life and external nature, and it is maintained only…

  • NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER

    My Utmost For His Highest And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 1 Cor. 2:4. If in preaching the Gospel you substitute your clear knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the Gospel, you…

  • CHRISTIAN PERFECTION

    My Utmost For His Highest Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect.… Phil. 3:12. It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do; God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. The emphasis of holiness movements is apt to be…

  • THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL

    My Utmost For His Highest For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10. The moral law does not consider us as weak human beings at all, it takes no account of our heredity and infirmities, it demands that we be absolutely moral. The…

  • BY THE GRACE OF GOD I AM WHAT I AM

    My Utmost For His Highest His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain. 1 Cor. 15:10. The way we continually talk about our own inability is an insult to the Creator. The deploring of our own incompetence is a slander against God for having overlooked us. Get into the habit of examining…

  • THE ABSOLUTENESS OF JESUS CHRIST

    My Utmost For His Highest He shall glorify Me. John 16:14. The pietistic movements of to-day have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them; there is nothing about them that needs the death of Jesus Christ, all that is required is a pious atmosphere, and prayer and devotion. This type of…

  • THE BOUNTY OF THE DESTITUTE

    My Utmost For His Highest Being justified freely by His grace … Romans 3:24. The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the revelation which it brings is not palatable. There is a certain pride in man that will give and give, but…