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
jesus majority intention
If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
mountain saws ordinary
We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
christian jesus joy
The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'
serving-god heard accounts
God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
spiritual perseverance knowing
There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.
necks laziness shakes
Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
reflection thinking long
The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.
religion wonder
When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.
jesus mean matter
No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.
loyalty jesus cost
In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.
gratitude sin fountain
The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.
jesus creativity saint
The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
character mirrors spirit
When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.
divine-guidance people giving
We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.