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
two worship difficult
Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.
christian jesus way
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.
rivers source knows
A river reaches places its source never knows.
hypocrite play trying
Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
spring remember exhausted
Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'
reality self people
By realizing the reality of our Prince within us, we are never bothered again by the fact that we do not understand ourselves, or that other people do not understand us. The only One who truly understands me is the One who made me and who redeems me... It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of every kind of self-consideration and learn to care about only one thing - the relationship between our Prince and ourselves.
thinking use alone-with-god
When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.
mean discipline speak
Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”
stars guides
The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.
religious jesus real
If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
dark garden ignored
We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.
spiritual inspiration angel
We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
running risk promise
It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.
son good-man problem
If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.