About Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers, once again, hit a home run with My Utmost for His Highest, a devotional book written in the 1920’s. Oswald was born in Scotland and spent much of his boyhood there. His ministry of teaching and preaching took him for a time to the United States and Japan.
The last six years of his life were spent as principal of the Bible Training College in London, and as a chaplain to British Commonwealth troops in Egypt during World War l.
After his death, the books which bear his name were compiled by his wife, Biddy, in Britain, from her own verbatim shorthand notes of his talks. It was published in the U.S. in 1934. His writings have been challenging lives ever since, including mine! I pray his devotional below touches your life.
-Joey Staples
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My Utmost for His Highest, August 26th
“Are You Ever Disturbed?”
By Oswald Chambers
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you” — John 14:27
“There are times when our sense of peace is based on ignorance. We may be filled with calm delight about the world, but only because our eyes are closed to its cruelties. When we awaken to the facts of life, inner peace is impossible—that is, unless we receive it from Jesus. When our Lord speaks peace, he makes peace; his words are forever Spirit and life (John 6:63). Have I ever received the peace of Jesus? It comes from looking into his face and realizing his undisturbed calm.
Are you painfully disturbed right now, distracted by the waves and billows of God’s providential permission? Have you been examining your beliefs, searching them for a bit of peace and joy and comfort and finding none? Then look up and receive the undisturbedness of the Lord. Reflected peace is proof that you are all right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to him. If you aren’t right with God, you can never turn your mind anywhere but on yourself. If you allow anything to hide the face of Jesus Christ from you, either you are disturbed or you have a false sense of security.
Are you looking to Jesus right now, in a matter that is urgently pressing, and receiving peace from him? If so, he will be a gracious blessing of peace in and through you. But try to worry it out and you will obliterate him from your life and deserve what you get. We become disturbed because we haven’t been considering Jesus Christ. When we turn to him, our perplexity vanishes, because he has no perplexity; our only concern then is to abide in him.
Bring all your troubles and worries to Jesus; lay them out before him. In the midst of difficulty, bereavement, and sorrow, hear him say, “Do not let your hearts be troubled” (John 14:1).
“May we all rest in the promises of our Lord, Jesus Christ”
Wisdom from Oswald:
“I have chosen you (John 15:16). Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God, but that He has got you”.
Extra wisdom from: Psalms 119:89-176; 1 Corinthians 8
Thank you, Lord, for teaching us through Oswald Chambers, (and his wife!)
By Eric Joseph Staples ©
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