Tag: Oswald Chambers

  • WHAT TO RENOUNCE

    My Utmost For His Highest But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. 2 Cor. 4:2. Have you “renounced the hidden things of dishonesty”—the things that your sense of honour will not allow to come to the light? You can easily hide them. Is there a thought in your heart about anyone which you would…

  • IMAGINATION V INSPIRATION

    My Utmost For His Highest The simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Cor. 11:3. Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly for a long while, but a saint ought to see clearly without any difficulty. You cannot think a spiritual muddle clear, you have to obey it clear.…

  • AFTER SURRENDER – WHAT?

    My Utmost For His Highest I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. John 17:4. Surrender is not the surrender of the external life, but of the Will; when that is done, all is done. There are very few crises in life; the great crisis is the surrender of the will. God…

  • BY SPIRITUAL CONFUSION

    My Utmost For His Highest Ye know not what ye ask. Matthew 20:22. There are times in spiritual life when there is confusion, and it is no way out to say that there ought not to be confusion. It is not a question of right and wrong, but a question of God taking you by…

  • MISSIONARY MUNITIONS

    My Utmost For His Highest Ministering as Opportunity Surrounds us. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. John 13:14. Ministering as opportunity surrounds us does not mean selecting our surroundings, it means being very selectly God’s in any haphazard surroundings which He engineers…

  • DO IT YOURSELF

    My Utmost For His Highest Determinedly Discipline other Things. Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2 Cor. 10:5. This is another aspect of the strenuous nature of sainthood. Paul says—“I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ.” (Moffatt.) How much Christian work there is to-day which has never been…

  • DO IT YOURSELF

    My Utmost For His Highest Determinedly Demolish some Things. Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. 2 Cor. 10:5. Deliverance from sin is not deliverance from human nature. There are things in human nature, such as prejudices, which the saint has to destroy by neglect; and other…

  • SPRINGS OF BENIGNITY

    My Utmost For His Highest The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water. John 4:14. The picture Our Lord gives is not that of a channel but a fountain. ‘Be being filled,’ and the sweetness of vital relationship to Jesus will flow out of the saint as lavishly…

  • DIVISIVENESS OF LIFE

    My Utmost For His Highest Rivers of living water. John 7:38. A river touches places of which its source knows nothing, and Jesus says if we have received of His fulness, however small the visible measure of our lives, out of us will flow the rivers that will bless to the uttermost parts of the…

  • THE MISSIONARY WATCHING

    My Utmost For His Highest Watch with Me. Matthew 26:40. “Watch with Me”—with no private point of view of your own at all, but watch entirely with Me. In the early stages we do not watch with Jesus, we watch for Him. We do not watch with Him through the revelation of the Bible; in…