Oswald Chambers was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day. He was born in Scotland and spent much of his boyhood there. His ministry of teaching and preaching took him for a time to the United States and Japan. The last six years of his life were spent as principal of the Bible Training College in London, and as a chaplain to the British Commonwealth troops in Egypt during World War 2.
I. After his death, the books which bear his name were compiled by his wife from her own verbatim shorthand notes of his talks. This daily devotional is a collection of his teachings compiled by his wife into a daily devotional format. It’s presented here in the original English.
Let us Keep to the Point
“My eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed, but that nowas ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage.” Philippians 1:20 My Utmost for His Highest. “My eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed.” We shall all feel very much ashamed…
Will you go out without knowing
“He went out, not knowing whither he went.” Hebrews 11:8 Have you been “out” in this way? If so, there is no logical statement possible when anyone asks you what you are doing. One of the difficulties in Christian work is this question – “What do you expect to do?” You do not know what…
Clouds and Darkness
“Clouds and darkness are round about Him.” Psalm 97:2 A man who has not been born of the Spirit of God will tell you that the teachings of Jesus are simple. But when you are baptized with the Holy Ghost, you find “clouds and darkness are round about Him.” When we come into close contact…
Why cannot I follow thee now?
Peter said unto him, “Lord, why cannot I follow thee now?” John 13 v 37 There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come in order to…
The afterwards of the life of power
“Whither I go, thou canst not follow Me now; but thou shalt follow Me afterwards.” John 13:36 “And when He had spoken this, He saith unto him, Follow Me.” Three years before, Jesus had said – “Fol ow Me,” and Peter had followed easily, the fascination of Jesus was upon him, he did not need…
Worship
“And he pitched his tent having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east: and therehe builded an altar.” Genesis 12:8 Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him…
Intimate with Jesus
“Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known Me?” John 14:9 These words are not spoken as a rebuke, nor even with surprise; Jesus is leading Philip on. The last One with whom we get intimate is Jesus. Before Pentecost the disciples knew Jesus as the One Who gave them…
Does my sacrifice live?
“And Abraham built an altar . . and bound Isaac his son.” Genesis 22:9 This incident is a picture of the blunder we make in thinking that the final thing God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. What God wants is the sacrifice through death which enables us to do what Jesus did,…
Intercessory Introspection
“And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless.” 1 Thessalonians 5 v 23 Your whole spirit. . .” The great mystical work of the Holy Spirit is in the dim regions of our personality which we cannot get at. Read the 139th Psalm; the Psalmist implies – “Thou art…
The Opened Sight
“To open their eyes . . . that they may receive . . .” Acts 26:18 This verse is the grandest condensation of the propaganda of a disciple of Jesus Christ in the whole of the New Testament. The first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the word – “that they may receive…
What my obedience to God costs other people
“They laid hold upon one Simon . . . and on him they laid the cross.” Luke 23:2 If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us…
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Have you ever been alone with God?
“When they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples.” Mark 4:34 Our Solitude with Him. Jesus does not take us alone and expound things to us al the time; He expounds things to us as we can understand them. Other lives are parables. God is making us spell out our own souls. It…