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…
The Ministry of the Interior
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. But ye are . . . a royal priesthood. – 1 Peter 2:9 By what right do we become “a royal priesthood”?? By the right of the Atonement. Are we prepared…
Have You Come to “When� Yet?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. – Job 42:10 The plaintive, self-centred, morbid kind of prayer, a dead-set that I want to be…
The Uncritical Temper
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Judge not, that ye be not judged. – Matthew 7:1 Jesus says regarding judging-Don’t. The average Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of the ordinary faculty…
What Do You Make of This
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend . . . . I have called you friends. – John 15:13 Jesus does…
Get A Move On
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. In the Matter of Drudgery. And beside this, . . . add. – 2 Peter 1:5 You have inherited the Divine nature, says Peter (v. 4), now screw your attention down…
Get A Move On
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. In the Matter of Determination. Abide in Me. – John 15:4 The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by the Atonement, then I have to construct with patience the way…
Getting There
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Where the selective affinity dies and the sanctified abandon lives. Come ye after Me. Mark 1:17 One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We…
The Next Best Thing To Do
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Seek, and ye shall find. – Luke 11:9 “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.” If you ask for things from life instead of from God, you ask amiss,…
The Next Best Thing To Do
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Ask if you have not Received. For everyone that asketh receiveth. – Luke 11:10 There is nothing more difficult than to ask. We will long and desire and crave and suffer,…
What Next?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Determine to know more than others. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. – John 13:17 If you do not cut the moorings, God will have…
Don’t Slack Off
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Whatever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do. – John 14:13 Am I fulfilling this ministry of the interior? There is no snare, or any danger of infatuation…
Work Out What God Works In
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Work out your own salvation. – Philippians 2:12 Your will agrees with God, but in your flesh there is a disposition which renders you powerless to do what you know you…
The Secret of the Lord
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. The secret (friendship R.V.) of the Lord is with them that fear Him. – Psalm 25:14 What is the sign of a friend? That he tells you secret sorrows? No, that…