Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chamberswas an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth24 July 1874
blessing men saint
God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.
would-be gods-will prove
Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
blessing giving god-blessing
Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.
gods-will knows
God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
teacher jesus way
If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.
faithful our-relationship certainty
Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
god real common-sense
The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.
ions self care
It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.
hands waiting
To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
rooms states constant
Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.
jesus disappointment heart
Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.
valleys glory gods-will
We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.
christian saint should
Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.
christian jesus people
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.