Oswald Chambers Story

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) - Scottish Baptist minister converted under Spurgeon's ministry. Not properly Pentecostal, though his beliefs were similar. He stressed availability to God and sought to stir up the Holy Spirit miraculously among God's people.

Titles:
Baffled to Fight Better
Biblical Ethics
Conformed to His Image
Devotions for a Deeper Life
If You Will Ask
In the Presence of His Majesty
My Utmost for His Highest
Prayer: A Holy Occupation
So Send I You
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.

Oswald Chambers Story
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born July 24, 1874, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Converted in his teen years under the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, he studied art and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh before answering a call from God to the Christian ministry. He then studied theology at Dunoon College. From 1906-1910 he conducted an itinerant Bible-teaching ministry in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

In 1910, Chambers married Gertrude Hobbs. They had one daughter, Kathleen.
In 1911 he founded and became principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham, London, where he lectured until the school was closed in 1915 because of World War I. In October 1915 he sailed for Zeitoun, Egypt (near Cairo), where he ministered to troops from Australia and New Zealand as a YMCA chaplain. He died there November 15, 1917, following surgery for a ruptured appendix.

My Utmost For His Highest, his best-known book, has been continuously in print in the United States since 1935 and remains in the top ten titles of the religious book bestseller list with millions of copies in print. It has become a Christian classic. This daily devotional is a collection of his teachings compiled by his wife into a daily devotional format. It's presented here in the original English.

Quotes from: "My Utmost For His Highest" Devotional
Are we partakers of Christ's sufferings? Are we prepared for God to stamp our personal ambitions right out? Are we prepared for God to destroy by transfiguration our individual determinations?

An average view of the Christian life is that it means deliverance from trouble. It is deliverance in trouble, which is very different.

We are not true to one another as facts; we are true only to our ideas of one another. Everything is either delightful and fine, or mean and dastardly, according to our idea.

To choose to suffer means that there is something wrong; to choose God's Will even if it means suffering is a very different thing. No healthy saint ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

God does not give us overcoming life: He gives us life as we overcome.

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials: through every cloud He brings, He wants us to unlearn something.

The sufferings of Christ are not those of ordinary men. He suffered "according to the will of God," not from the point of view we suffer from as individuals.

Our position is not ours until we make it ours by suffering.