Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. What man is he that feareth the Lord? – Psalm 25:12 What are you haunted by? You will say-‘By nothing,’ but we are all haunted by something, generally by ourselves, or,…
The Staggering Question
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Son of man, can these bones live? – Ezekiel 37:3 Can that sinner be turned into a saint? Can that twisted life be put right? There is only one answer: ‘O…
The Life That Lives
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. – Luke 24:49 The disciples had to tarry until the day of Pentecost not for…
Think as Jesus Taught
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Pray without ceasing. – 1 Thessalonians 5:17 We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as…
The Test of Self-Interest
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. – Genesis…
The Delight of Despair
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. – Revelation 1:17 It may be that like the apostle John you know Jesus Christ intimately, when suddenly He…
Careful Infidelity
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body what ye shall put on. – Matthre 6:25 Jesus sums up…
The Realm of the Real
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. In your patience possess ye your souls. – Luke 21:19 When a man is born again, there is not the same robustness in his thinking or reasoning for a time as…
“Out of the Wreck I Rise�
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? – Romans 8:35 God does not keep a man immune from trouble; He says-“I will be with him in trouble.â€? It does…
Careful Unreasonableness
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Behold the fowls of the air . . . . consider the lilies of the field. – Matthew 6:26 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they simply are!…
His Ascension and Our Union
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And it came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. – Luke 24:51 We have no corresponding experience to the events in…
The Habit of Wealth
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Partakers of the divine nature. – 2 Peter 1:4 We are made partakers of the Divine nature through the promises; then we have to ‘manipulate’ the Divine nature in our human…
The Habit of a Good ConscienceThe Habit of a Good Conscience
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. A conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. – Acts 24:16 God’s commands are given to the life of His Son in us, consequently to the human nature in…
Make a Habit of Having No Habits
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful. – 2 Peter 1:8 When we begin to form a habit we are conscious…