With 365 thought-provoking meditations, you will be encouraged to stretch yourself and your faith daily. This premium leather edition in updated language includes decorative sidebars with quotes from Chambers’ other works. For nearly seventy-five years, countless millions of Christians the world over have trusted the spiritual companionship of Oswald Chambers's daily devotional, 'My Utmost for His Highest.' These brief scripture-based readings-by turns comforting and challenging-will draw you into God's presence and form you as a. Among them is My Utmost for His Highest, which has sold over 13 million copies worldwide and is one of the most popular religious books ever written. His wife, Biddy, transcribed his lectures and sermons and compiled them into books after his death. When once you realise all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.”Īs timely today as during his chaplaincy in World War I, Oswald Chambers’ messages cut to the heart of the gospel. With reminders such as: “Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace it cost God the Cross of Jesus Christ before He could forgive sin and remain a holy God. Once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vise, constrained by the love of God.How might your life change if you invested deeply in your relationship with God? If you’re looking for a positive challenge, My Utmost for His Highest is the devotional you need. But the thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

Sanctification is simply the wonderful expression or evidence of the forgiveness of sins in a human life. God’s forgiveness is possible only in the supernatural realm.Ĭompared with the miracle of the forgiveness of sin, the experience of sanctification is small. The only way we can be forgiven is by being brought back to God through the atonement of the Cross. The revealed truth of God is that without the atonement He cannot forgive- He would contradict His nature if He did.

Never accept a view of the fatherhood of God if it blots out the atonement. To forgive sin, while remaining a holy God, this price had to be paid. We should never take the forgiveness of sin, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and our sanctification in simple faith, and then forget the enormous cost to God that made all of this ours.įorgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. There is no other way! Forgiveness, which is so easy for us to accept, cost the agony at Calvary.

The only ground on which God can forgive our sin and reinstate us to His favor is through the Cross of Christ. To base our forgiveness on any other ground is unconscious blasphemy. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. Ephesians 1:7īeware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us.

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