Feb 23, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest
The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve… —Matthew 20:28 Jesus also said, “Yet I am among you as the One who serves” (Luke 22:27). Paul’s idea of service was the same as our Lord’s— “…ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake” (2 Corinthians 4:5). We...
Feb 22, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest
Be still, and know that I am God… —Psalm 46:10 Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may be only exposing...
Feb 21, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest
She has done a good work for Me. —Mark 14:6 If what we call love doesn’t take us beyond ourselves, it is not really love. If we have the idea that love is characterized as cautious, wise, sensible, shrewd, and never taken to extremes, we have missed the true meaning....
Feb 20, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest
Arise, let us go from here. —John 14:31 Daydreaming about something in order to do it properly is right, but daydreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. In this passage, after having said these wonderful things to His disciples, we might have expected...
Feb 18, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest
Rise, let us be going. —Matthew 26:46 In the Garden of Gethsemane, the disciples went to sleep when they should have stayed awake, and once they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense of having done something irreversible tends to make us despair....
Feb 17, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest
Arise and eat. — 1 Kings 19:5 The angel did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to him, or do anything remarkable; he told Elijah to do the most ordinary thing, viz., to get up and eat. If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the...
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