MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 3RD NOVEMBER 2025 BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Read My Utmost for His Highest 3rd November 2025 (Oswald Chambers Devotional) Monday Inspirational Message.
TOPIC: A Bond Servant of Jesus
I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. —Galatians 2:20
These words mean breaking my independence with my own hand and surrendering myself to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus Christ. No one else can do this for me; I must do it myself. God may bring me to the point of surrender three hundred sixty-five times a year, but he can’t push me through. Surrender means breaking the shell of my individual independence from God. It means the emancipation of my personality into oneness with him—not for any agenda of my own, but for absolute loyalty to Jesus. Very few of us know anything about this kind of loyalty. “Whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel . . .” (Mark 8:35): that is what makes an iron saint.
Has the break with my independence come? The one thing I must decide is, Will I give up? Will I surrender to Jesus Christ, making no conditions? I must be broken of the desire for self-realization. Once this point is reached, supernatural identification with my Lord takes place immediately, and the witness of the Spirit of God within me is unmistakable: “I have been crucified with Christ.”
The passion of Christianity is that I deliberately sign away my rights and become a bond servant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I cannot begin to be a saint. When I have done it, God is able to help himself to my life. Will I let him? Or do I have my own ideas of what I’m going to be?
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Jeremiah 30-31; Philemon
Wisdom from Oswald
A fanatic is one who entrenches himself in invincible ignorance.
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