Quote of the Day

"The Christianity which is not spiritual says we must by no means offend, or do anything that hurts a Christian brother's feelings. Did Jesus ever offend anyone knowingly?  He certainly did; (Matthew 12:1-8) but He never put a stumbling block in anyone's way."

Oswald Chambers

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"We may have to face destitution in order to maintain our spiritual connection to Jesus, and we can only do that if we love Him supremely. Every now and again there is the 'last bridge' - 'I have gone far enough, I can't go any further.' If you are going on with God it is impossible to secure your interests at all. We have to go on in perfect confidence that our Father in heaven knows all about us. Are we prepared to fulfil these conditions when they arise?"

-Oswald Chambers-

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"Solidarity means a consolidation or a oneness of interests. Here, the solidarity is between ourselves and God; we deliberately identify ourselves with God's interests in other people. 'Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto Me.'"

Oswald Chambers

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"The test for the saint is not common sense, but 'is this what Jesus stood for?' 'For I am not ashamed of the gospel.' If you dare to stand for Jesus Christ and His presentation of things in certain crises, men will separate you from their company, treat you with unutterable contempt. 'Blessed are ye', said Jesus, 'when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake'. (Luke 6:22) we have to express the love of God in the midst of these things." 

Oswald Chambers

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"Is there any use in beating about the bush? We call ourselves Christians, what does our Christianity amount to practically? Has it made any difference to my natural individual life? It cannot unless I deliberately give up my right to myself to Jesus, and as His disciple begin to work out the personal salvation He has worked in. Independence must be blasted right out of a saint. God's providence seems to pay no attention whatever to our individual ideas because He is after only one thing- 'that they may be one, even as We are one.' It may look like a thorough breaking up of the life, but it will end in a manifestation of the Christian self in oneness with God."

Oswald Chambers

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"When a man falls in love his personality emerges and he enters into relationship with another personality. Love is not anything for me at all; love is the deliberate giving of myself right out to another person. The idea, I must have this person for myself, is not love, but lust. Lust counterfeits love in the same way that individuality counterfeits personality."

Oswald Chambers

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"We are all tremendously important until the Holy Ghost takes us in hand, then we cease to be important and God becomes all-important." 

Oswald Chambers

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"Are we humble and obedient, learning as Jesus learned, or are we hurrying into experiences we have no right to? " - Oswald Chambers

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"It is not the passing of the years that matures the life of the Son of God in us, but obedience." - Oswald Chambers

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"There is no human being on earth with an innocence which is not based on ignorance, and if we have come to the stage of life we are now in with the belief that innocence and purity are the same thing, it is because we have paid no attention to what Jesus Christ said. Purity is something that has been tested and tried, and triumphed; innocence has always to be shielded." 

-Oswald Chambers, The Servant as His Lord p. 48 

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"The compromise arising from self-pity is quite sufficient to extinguish the whole purpose of God in a life." - Oswald Chambers

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"We soon find why the Gospel can never be welcome. As long as we speak winsomely about the 'meek and gentle Jesus', and the beautiful ideas the Holy Spirit produces when He comes in, people are captivated, but that is not the Gospel. The Gospel does away with any other ground to stand on than that of the Atonement. Speak about the peace of heaven and the joy of the Lord, and men will listen to you; but tell them that the Holy Spirit has to come in and turn our their claim to their right to themselves, and instantly there is resentment- "

Oswald Chambers, The Servant as His Lord p. 72

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"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)

"Jesus Christ foretold tribulation; He conveyed His message with a clarion voice to the saints in all ages- 'In the world ye shall have tribulation', and the Apostle Paul continually warns us that we have no right to settle on our lees. 'For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.' (I Thessalonians 3:4) Tribulation means being thronged by severe affliction and trouble; that is what the saints are to expect in this dispensation and not be astonished when it comes. God allows tribulation and anguish to come right to the threshold of our lives in order to prove to us that His life in us is more than a match for all that is against us. When we see the awfulness of evil in this world we imagine there is no room for anything but the devil and wrong; but this is not so. God restrains the powers of evil. How does He do it? Through the lives of the saints who are pushing the battle everywhere their feet are placed. The devil tackles on the right hand and on the left but they are more than conquerors, they not only go through the tribulation, but are 'exceeding joyful' in it."

Oswald Chamber, "The Servant as His Lord" p. 11 and 12.