Will it Last?


January 31, 2005

The Conservative media is buzzing today about the elections yesterday in Iraq. I’m happy for Iraq that they are now able to select their own leader, rather than being ruled by the guy who has the most guns. I’m skeptical, however that it will last. Turkey, the only “democracy” in the Muslim world, has shown [...]

Do You See Your Calling?

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Separated unto the Gospel. – Romans 1:1 Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the Gospel of God. The one thing that is all important is that the Gospel of God should be realized as the abiding [...]

But It Is Hardly Credible That One Could So Persecute Jesus!


January 28, 2005

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me? – Acts 26:14 Am I set on my own way for God? We are never free from this snare until we are brought into the experience of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire. Obstinacy and self-will will always [...]

Look Again and Think


January 27, 2005

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Take no thought for your life. – Matthew 6:25 A warning which needs to be reiterated is that the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things entering in, will choke all that God puts in. We are never free [...]

Military Humor


January 26, 2005

My uncle sent me these. Being a pilot-in-training, I found many of them to be especially humorous. Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ..I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing! – Sign over the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan. You’ve never been lost [...]

Look Again and Consecrate

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. If God so clothe the grass of the field … shall He not much more clothe you? – Matthew 6:30 A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity [...]

Jesus and a Bar of Soap


January 25, 2005

Ron, over at Shanktified!, has this little gem that he posted last week: Top Ten Reasons I Never Bathe: I was forced to as a child. People who bathe are hypocrites – they think they are cleaner than everybody else. There are so many different kinds of soap, I can’t decide which one is best. [...]

Leave Room for God

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. But when it pleased God . . . . – Galatians 1:15 As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God- to give God ‘elbow room.’ We calculate and estimate, and say that this and that will happen, and we forget to [...]

The Overmastering Direction


January 24, 2005

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. I have appeared unto thee for this purpose. – Acts 26:16 The vision Paul had on the road to Damascus was no passing emotion, but a vision that had very clear and emphatic directions for him, and he says, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly [...]

What Am I Looking At?


January 22, 2005

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Look unto Me, and be ye saved. – Isaiah 45:22 Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He says-‘Look unto Me, and be saved.’ The great difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God, and it is His blessings that [...]

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