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RSS | My Utmost For His Highest Daily Devotionals By Oswald Chambers

  • Abraham’s Life of Faith
    on March 19, 2024 at 5:00 am

    He went out, not knowing where he was going. —Hebrews 11:8In the Old Testament, a person’s relationship with God was seen by the degree of separation in that person’s life. This separation is exhibited in the life of Abraham by his separation from his country and his family. When we think of separation today, we do not mean to be…

  • Will I Bring Myself Up to...
    on March 18, 2024 at 5:00 am

    …perfecting holiness in the fear of God. —2 Corinthians 7:1“Therefore, having these promises….” I claim God’s promises for my life and look to their fulfillment, and rightly so, but that shows only the human perspective on them. God’s perspective is that through His promises I will come to recognize His claim of ownership on me. For example, do I…

  • The Servant’s Primary Goal
    on March 17, 2024 at 5:00 am

    We make it our aim…to be well pleasing to Him. —2 Corinthians 5:9“We make it our aim….” It requires a conscious decision and effort to keep our primary goal constantly in front of us. It means holding ourselves to the highest priority year in and year out; not making our first priority to win souls, or to establish churches, or to have…

  • The Master Will Judge
    on March 16, 2024 at 5:00 am

    We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ… —2 Corinthians 5:10Paul says that we must all, preachers and other people alike, “appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” But if you will learn here and now to live under the scrutiny of Christ’s pure light, your final judgment will bring you only delight in seeing the work God has done…

  • The Discipline of Dismay
    on March 15, 2024 at 5:00 am

    As they followed they were afraid. —Mark 10:32At the beginning of our life with Jesus Christ, we were sure we knew all there was to know about following Him. It was a delight to forsake everything else and to throw ourselves before Him in a fearless statement of love. But now we are not quite so sure.…

  • Yielding
    on March 14, 2024 at 5:00 am

    …you are that one’s slaves whom you obey… —Romans 6:16The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the…

  • God’s Total Surrender to Us
    on March 13, 2024 at 5:00 am

    For God so loved the world that He gave… —John 3:16Salvation does not mean merely deliverance from sin or the experience of personal holiness. The salvation which comes from God means being completely delivered from myself, and being placed into perfect union with Him. When I think of my salvation experience, I think of being delivered from sin and gaining…

  • Total Surrender
    on March 12, 2024 at 5:00 am

    Peter began to say to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You." —Mark 10:28Our Lord replies to this statement of Peter by saying that this surrender is “for My sake and the gospel’s” (Mark 10:29). It was not for the purpose of what the disciples themselves would get out of it. Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.…

  • Obedience to the “Heavenly...
    on March 11, 2024 at 5:00 am

    I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. —Acts 26:19If we lose “the heavenly vision” God has given us, we alone are responsible— not God. We lose the vision because of our own lack of spiritual growth. If we do not apply our beliefs about God to the issues of everyday life, the vision God has given us will…

  • Being an Example of His...
    on March 10, 2024 at 5:00 am

    Preach the word! —2 Timothy 4:2We are not saved only to be instruments for God, but to be His sons and daughters. He does not turn us into spiritual agents but into spiritual messengers, and the message must be a part of us. The Son of God was His own message— “The words that I…