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…
Look Again and Consecrate
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. If God so clothe the grass of the field … shall He not much more clothe you? – Matthew 6:30 A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us…
Jesus and a Bar of Soap
Ron, over at Shanktified!, has this little gem that he posted last week: Top Ten Reasons I Never Bathe: I was forced to as a child. People who bathe are hypocrites – they think they are cleaner than everybody else.…
Leave Room for God
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. But when it pleased God . . . . – Galatians 1:15 As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God- to give God ‘elbow room.’ We…
The Overmastering Direction
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. I have appeared unto thee for this purpose. – Acts 26:16 The vision Paul had on the road to Damascus was no passing emotion, but a vision that had very clear…
What Am I Looking At?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Look unto Me, and be ye saved. – Isaiah 45:22 Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He says-‘Look unto Me, and be saved.’…
Recall What God Remembers
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. I remember … the kindness of thy youth. – Jeremiah 2:2 Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be…
Are You Fresh For Everything?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” – John 3:3 Sometimes we are fresh for a prayer meeting but not fresh for cleaning boots! Being…
Vision and Darkness
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. An horror of great darkness fell upon him. – Genesis 15:1 Whenever God gives a vision to a saint, He puts him, as it were, in the shadow of His hand,…