MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST 8TH OCTOBER 2024 BY OSWALD CHAMBERS
Read My Utmost for His Highest 7th October 2024 (Oswald Chambers Devotional) Tuesday Inspirational Message.
TOPIC: Come to Me
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. — Matthew 11:28
Isn’t it humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus? As long as we have even the tiniest bit of spiritual rebellion inside of us, we long for God to ask us to do something grand and important. Instead, he tells us to do something infinitely simple: “Come.”
Think of all the things you won’t come to the Lord about. If you want to know how spiritually real you are, test yourself with these words: “Come to me.” In every degree to which you are not real, you will argue rather than come; you will go through sorrow rather than come; you will do anything rather than present yourself, just as you are, to your Lord.
“Come to me.” When you hear these words, you know that a change must happen inside you before you will come. The Holy Spirit will show you what you have to do. He will show you that you must take an axe to the thing that is preventing you from getting through to the Lord. You will never get any further until you do. The Holy Spirit will locate the one unmovable thing in you, but he won’t budge it unless you let him.
How often have you come to God with your requests and had the feeling that you’d achieved your goal, only to come away with nothing? And yet all the time, God has stood with outstretched hands, not only to take you but so that you will take him. Think of the invincible, unconquerable, untiring patience of Jesus as he says, “Come to me.”
FURTHER READING: Isaiah 30-31; Phil 4
Wisdom from Oswald
I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
Disciples Indeed, 385 L
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