Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest

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Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

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Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

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Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.

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If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything to the Lord, other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.

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If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

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What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

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As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness. But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

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Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.

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Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation... 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

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When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.

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Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'

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Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

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If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

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Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

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If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God's purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

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It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.

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People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

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Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, I will remain true to God's character whatever He may do. The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is- Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him (Job 13:15).

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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

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The test of a man's religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

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What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

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Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

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The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.

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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

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When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.

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Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am.' You are certainly of no use where you're not.

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By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

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If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.

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