MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 29 AUGUST 2024 BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Read My Utmost for His Highest 29 August 2024 (Oswald Chambers Devotional) Thursday Inspirational Message.
TOPIC: Sublime Intimacy
Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God? — John 11:40
Every time you venture out in the life of faith, you will find something which, from a commonsense standpoint, flatly contradicts your faith. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense. They stand in the relation of the natural to the spiritual. Can you trust Jesus Christ when your common sense fails? Can you venture heroically on his words when the facts of your life shout, “It’s a lie”? Up on the mountaintop with God, it’s easy to say, “I believe God can do anything.” But you have to come down from the heights into the valley and meet with facts that laugh ironically at your belief.
Every time my program of belief is clear to my own mind, I will come across something that contradicts it. Let me say to myself, “I believe God will meet all my needs,” then my provisions run dry; I have no idea how they’ll be replenished. Then let me see whether I will go through the trial of faith or whether I will sink back to a lower level.
Faith must be tested. It can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict. What is your faith up against just now? Either the test will prove that your faith is right, or it will kill it. “Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me” (Matthew 11:6). The supreme thing is confidence in Jesus. Believe steadfastly in him, and all you come up against will strengthen and develop your faith. There’s continual testing in the life of faith, and the last great test is death.
May God keep us in fighting shape! Faith is indescribable trust in God, trust which never dreams he will not stand by us.
FURTHER READING: Psalms 126-128; 1 Corinthians 10:19-33
Wisdom from Oswald
Beware of pronouncing any verdict on the life of faith if you are not living it.
Not Knowing Whither, 900 R
Oswald Chambers was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher who was aligned with the Holiness Movement. He is best known for the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest