Never try to reason it out, saying, “I wonder why I shouldn’t do this?” God instructs us in what we choose that is, He actually guides our common sense. Soon she gathered the material into book form and, in 1927, she first published My Utmost for His Highest. And if we are about to choose what He does not want, He will give us a sense of doubt or restraint, which we must heed.

If we are saved and sanctified, God guides us by our everyday choices. But then as we grow spiritually, we live so fully aware of God that we do not even need to ask what His will is, because the thought of choosing another way will never occur to us. At first, we want the awareness of being guided by God. “Him shall He teach in the way He chooses” ( Psalm 25:12). Are we so intimately united to Jesus Christ’s idea of prayer- “Your will be done” ( Matthew 6:10)- that we catch the secrets of God? What makes God so dear to us is not so much His big blessings to us, but the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us- He knows every detail of each of our individual lives. But then we find that God wants to get us into an intimate relationship with Himself- to get us in touch with His purposes. Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys? Or are we continually telling God our secrets, leaving Him no time to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian life we are full of requests to God. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you. He died at age forty-three while serving as chaplain to British Commonwealth troops in Egypt during World War I.What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Born in Scotland, Chambers had a teaching and preaching ministry that took him as far as the United States and Japan. Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) is best known for this classic devotional My Utmost for His Highest.

In this edition of My Utmost for His Highest, you get updated-language daily devotionals that have become an enduring favorite because Oswald Chambers used his spiritual gifts so wisely and generously.Ĭompiled from lectures given at the Bible Training College in London, to nightly talks in an Egyptian YMCA during World War I, My Utmost for His Highest will lend a powerful spiritual dimension to your walk with God. They don’t take a lot of time to read, but they can infuse you with the timeless truths of the Bible. Oswald Chambers was gifted with extracting the essence of biblical principles and condensing them into potent, thought-provoking, and life-changing devotions. Oswald Chambers, “My Utmost For His Highest”

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