My Utmost
for
His Highest

The classic, best-loved treasury of daily devotional readings

Oswald Chambers

Today’s Reading

Oswald Chambers Publications
Association

and
Marshall Pickering

Marshall Morgan and Scott Marshall Pickering 3 Beggarwood Lane, Basingstoke, Hants RG23 7LP, UK Part of the Marshall Pickering Holdings Group A subsidiary of the Zondervan Corporation

Copyright 1927 by Oswald Chambers Publications Association

First published in 1927 by Marshall Morgan and Scott Publications Ltd

Twenty second impression 1967. reissued in 1972, and reprinted in 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1984 and 1985. Reissued in hardback in 1986.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Chambers, Oswald My utmost for his highest. 1. Devotional calendars

I. Title

242’.2BV4810

ISBN 0–551–1365–6

Limp edition ISBN 0–551–1375–3

Printed in Great Britain by The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton.

Foreword

These daily readings have been selected from various sources, chiefly from the lectures given at the Bible Training College, Clapham, during the years 1911–1915; then, from October 1915 to November 1917, from talks given night by night in the Y.M.C.A. Huts, Zeitoun, Egypt. In November 1917 my husband entered into God’s presence. Since then many of the talks have been published in book form, and others from which these readings have been gathered will also be published in due course.

A large proportion of the readings have been chosen from the talks given during the Devotional Hour at the College—an hour which for many of the students marked an epoch in their life with God.

‘Men return again and again to the few who have mastered the spiritual secret, whose life has been hid with Christ in God. These are of the old-time religion, hung to the nails of the Cross’ (Robert Murray McCheyne).

It is because it is felt that the author is one to whose teaching men will return, that this book has been prepared, and it is sent out with the prayer that day by day the messages may continue to bring the quickening life and inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

B. C.

1927

To

The Students
of the Bible Training College

“For His Name’s sake they went forth …”

“Witnesses unto Me … unto the uttermost

part of the earth.”

January 1st

Let us keep to the point

My eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed, but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage. Phil. 1:20. (Moffatt.)

My Utmost for His Highest. “My eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed.” We shall all feel very much ashamed if we do not yield to Jesus on the point He has asked us to yield to Him. Paul says—“My determination is to be my utmost for His Highest.” To get there is a question of will, not of debate nor of ...