Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect. – Matthew 5:48. Our Lord’s exhortation in these verses is to be generous in our behaviour to all men. In the spiritual life beware of walking according to natural affinities. Everyone has natural affinities; [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Ye are they which have continued with Me in My temptations. – Luke 22:28 It is true that Jesus Christ is with us in our temptations, but are we going with Him in His temptations? Many of us cease to go with Jesus from the moment [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret. – Matthew 6:6 The main idea in the region of religion is-Your eyes upon God, not on men. Do not have as [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. – 2 Corinthians 4:2 Have you “renounced the hidden things of dishonestyâ€?-the things that your sense of honour will not allow to come to the light? You can easily hide them. Is there a thought in your heart [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. The simplicity that is in Christ. – 2 Corinthians 11:3 Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly for a long while, but a saint ought to see clearly without any difficulty. You cannot think a spiritual muddle clear, you [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. – John 17:4 Surrender is not the surrender of the external life, but of the Will; when that is done, all is done. There are very few crises in life; the great crisis is the [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Ye know not what ye ask. – Matthew 20:22 There are times in spiritual life when there is confusion, and it is no way out to say that there ought not to be confusion. It is not a question of right and wrong, but a question [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Determinedly Discipline Other Things. Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. – 2 Corinthians 10:5 This is another aspect of the strenuous nature of sainthood. Paul says-“I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ.â€? (Moffatt.) How much Christian work there is [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Determinedly Demolish Some Things. Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. – 2 Corinthians 10:5 Deliverance from sin is not deliverance from human nature. There are things in human nature, such as prejudices, which the saint has to [...]