MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 13TH JANUARY 2025 BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Read My Utmost for His Highest 13th January 2025 (Oswald Chambers Devotional) Monday Inspirational Message.
TOPIC: God’s Solitude with Us
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Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place. —Mark 6:31
When God gets us alone—isolating us through sickness, heartbreak, or disappointment, through affliction, temptation, or unrequited love—when he gets us totally alone and we are so bewildered that we cannot ask him even one question, this is when he begins to teach us.
Most of the time, we are not alone with God in this way: it’s why he must produce a crisis. We spend our lives distracted by fussy little worries about our work or our health or what other people are doing. Jesus can explain nothing to us until we learn to quiet our minds and leave others alone. If I am walking with him, the only thing he intends me to see clearly is how he is dealing with my soul. We think we understand other people’s situations; then God shows us our own hearts, and we see that there are whole regions of stubbornness and ignorance inside us that we cannot access on our own. Only the Holy Spirit can reach these places.
If God has gotten you alone right now, if you are feeling isolated and bewildered, turn to the Spirit he has placed inside. It is the fine art of the Holy Spirit to be alone with God; it is a purpose of the Holy Spirit to guide and instruct: “The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things” (John 14:26). Remember that God has not left you alone; he has gotten you alone with him. Go with God to a quiet place, and his Spirit will teach you all you need to know.
FURTHER READING: Genesis 31-32; Matthew 9:18-38
Wisdom from Oswald
We begin our Christian life by believing what we are told to believe, then we have to go on to so assimilate our beliefs that they work out in a way that redounds to the glory of God. The danger is in multiplying the acceptation of beliefs we do not make our own.
Conformed to His Image, 381 L
