Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. – Isaiah 6:1 Our soul’s history with God is frequently the history of the passing of the hero.’ Over…
The Spiritual Society
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Till we all come . . . unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. – Ephesians 4:13 Rehabilitation means the putting back of the whole human race…
The Spiritual Saint
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. That I may know Him. – Philippians 3:10 The initiative of the saint is not towards self-realization, but towards knowing Jesus Christ. The spiritual saint never believes circumstances to be haphazard,…
The Will to Loyalty
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Choose you this day whom ye will serve. – Joshua 24:15 Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to…
All Noble Things are Difficult
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Enter ye in at the strait gate . . . : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way. . . – Matthew 7:13 If we are going to…
Vision and Reality
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And the parched ground shall become a pool. – Isaiah -35:7 We always have visions before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it…
Don’t Calculate Without God
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. – Psalm 37:5 Don’t calculate without God. God seems to have a delightful way…
The Inevitable Penalty
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the uttermost farthing. – Matthew 5:26 “There is no heaven with a little of…
Direction of Discipline
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that…
Apprehended by God
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. If that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended. – Philippians 3:12 Never choose to be a worker; but when once God has put His call on you,…
The Overshadowing personal deliverance
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. – Jeremiah 1:8 God promised Jeremiah that He would deliver him personally- “Thy life will I give unto thee for a…
Honorable Mention
I have yet to win an award for my blog, but I did get my first honorable mention. Challies dot Com has given me honorable mention in the First Annual Christian Blogosphere Awards of Demerit. The category: Worst Use of…
Acquaintance With Grief
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. – Isaiah 53:3 We are not acquainted with grief in the way in which Our Lord was acquainted with it; we endure it,…
The Undeviating Test
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. – Matthew 7:2 This statement is not a…