Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
The Discipline of Heeding
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
Must I Listen?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
Is Your Hope in God Faint and Dying?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
Is Your Imagination of God Starved?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
Are You Exhausted Spiritually?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
Instantaneous and Insistent Sanctification
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly. – 1 Thessalonians 5:23 When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take…
The Discipline of Dejection
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. But we trusted . . . and beside all this, to-day is the third day . . . . . – Luke 24:21 Every fact that the disciples stated was right;…
The Overmastering Majesty of Personal Power
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. For the love of Christ constraineth us. – 2 Corinthians 5:14 Paul says he is overruled, overmastered, held as in a vice, by the love of Christ. Very few of us…
The Recognized Ban of Relationship
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. We are made as the filth of the world. – 1 Corinthians 4:9 These words are not an exaggeration. The reason they are not true of us who call ourselves ministers…
The Constraint of the Call
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! – 1 Corinthians 9:16 Beware of stopping your ears to the call of God. everyone who is saved is called to…
The Call of God
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel. – 1 Corinthians 1:17 Paul states here that the call of God is to preach the gospel; but remember…
Do You See Your Calling?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Separated unto the Gospel. – Romans 1:1 Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the Gospel of God. The one thing that…
But It Is Hardly Credible That One Could So Persecute Jesus!
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me? – Acts 26:14 Am I set on my own way for God? We are never free from this snare until we are brought into the…
Look Again and Think
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Take no thought for your life. – Matthew 6:25 A warning which needs to be reiterated is that the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of…