MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 25TH JANUARY 2026 BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Read My Utmost for His Highest 25th January 2026 (Oswald Chambers Devotional) Sunday Inspirational Message.
TOPIC: Leave Room for God
But when it pleased God . . . —Galatians 1:15 kjv
Have you learned how to leave space for God—to give him a little elbow room to work in your life? Too often, as we go about making our plans, we forget to leave a place for God to come in as he chooses. We say that this or that will happen, but none of our predictions leave room for the element of divine surprise.
Would we be shocked if God came into our meetings, our prayers, or our preaching in a way we’d never expected? However well we think we know God, we can never know exactly what he’ll do. What we can know is that, when it pleases him, he will break in. This is the great lesson to learn—that at any minute God may arrive. We tend to overlook this element of surprise, and yet God never works in any other way.
Keep in constant, intimate contact with God, so that his surprising power may break through at any time and any place. Always be in a state of expectancy, and remember to leave room. Do not look for God to come in any particular way, but do look for him.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 12-13; Matthew 16
WISDOM FROM OSWALD
To read the Bible according to God’s providential order in your circumstances is the only way to read it, viz., in the blood and passion of personal life.
Disciples Indeed, 387 R