Oswald Chambers has a way of poking his finger in the eye of discontent. Every time I come to the reading titled “The Habit of Enjoying Adversity” in My Utmost for His Highest, there’s a certain internal groan because I have an advanced degree in not enjoying adversity. But, thanks to the Spirit within me, [...]

I must realize that my obedience even in the smallest detail of life has all of the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. If I will do my duty, not for duty’s sake but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at every point of my obedience all of the [...]

We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing— that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, [...]

It’s been pretty quiet around this corner of blogland, but if you had turned up the volume you would have heard copious amounts of coughing and hacking during the past couple of…weeks was it?…it felt like a month. Like I’ve read from others of you, what little energy I had was put toward work, home, [...]

I’ve been reading Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost For His Highest every morning for twenty years or so. By now, most of the passages are as familiar as old friends, but they still have a freshness that creates a longing for more of Christ. I love today’s reading:
We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a [...]

Will I surrender to Jesus Christ, placing no conditions whatsoever as to how the brokenness will come? I must be broken from my own understanding of myself. When I reach that point, immediately the reality of the supernatural identification with Jesus Christ takes place. And the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable–”I have [...]

A couple of days ago I posted a quote from Oswald Chambers. It’s one that I’ve been (to quote a Puritan) moiling and toiling over for a while, especially this sentence: I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict against the nature of sin;, [...]

“The inescapable spiritual need each of us have is the need to sign the death certificate of our sin nature. I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict against the nature of sin; that is, against any claim I have to my right to [...]