MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 23RD DECEMBER 2025 BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 23RD DECEMBER 2025Read My Utmost for His Highest 23rd December 2025 (Oswald Chambers Devotional) Tuesday Inspirational Message.
TOPIC: Identified with His Death
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May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. — Galatians 6:14
The gospel of Jesus Christ always forces an issue of will. Will I accept the verdict God passed on sin in the cross of Christ? Do I want to be identified with the death of Jesus? To be killed to all my former interest in sin, worldliness, and self? To be so identified with Jesus that I’m spoiled for everything else but him? The great privilege of discipleship is that I can sign on under his cross, and this means death to sin.
Get alone with Jesus and tell him either that you don’t want sin to die out in you or that, at all costs, you want to be identified with his death. The instant you act in confident faith on what our Lord did on the cross, a supernatural identification with his death takes place, and you will know with a knowledge that passes knowledge that your old self is crucified with Christ. The proof that your old self has been crucified with Christ is the amazing ease with which the life of God in you enables you to obey the voice of Jesus Christ.
Every now and again, our Lord lets us see what life would be like if it weren’t for him. It’s a justification of what he said in John 15:5: “Apart from me you can do nothing.” That’s why the bedrock of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to him. We mistake the ecstasy of our first introduction into the kingdom of God for God’s purpose in getting us there. His purpose in getting us there is that we realize all that personal identification with Jesus Christ means.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nahum 1-3; Revelation 14
Wisdom from Oswald
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
Baffled to Fight Better, 51 L
