Oswald Chambers (24 July 1874 – 15 November 1917) was an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.
Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.
The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?
Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.
Intercession is about putting ourselves in other’s shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective
Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon
Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.
Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.
To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.
Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.
As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.