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Summary: Give us this day our daily bread...
Review: "My Utmost for His Highest" is daily bread, hot and fresh from heavenly ovens!This was the first devotional I read after I was saved and have rediscovered its relevance, convicting power, and probing insights. I gave a copy to my best friend in June. He told me that he started reading it from January 1st, 5 days at a time, because he didn't want to miss anything God had for him in the previous months! That's the it is with Utmost - every day brings the Word of God in an interesting, very personal and amazingly relevant way to the reader. This is a precious gem for the believer.
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Summary: Give us this day our daily bread...
Review: "My Utmost for His Highest" is daily bread, hot and fresh from heavenly ovens! This was the first devotional I read after I was saved and have rediscovered its relevance, convicting power, and probing insights. I gave a copy to my best friend in June. He told me that he started reading it from January 1st, 5 days at a time, because he didn't want to miss anything God had for him in the previous months! That's the it is with Utmost - every day brings the Word of God in an interesting, very personal and amazingly relevant way to the reader. This is a precious gem for the believer.
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Summary: Daily inspirations on a practical living Christianity.
Review: 'My Utmost For His Highest' begins every calendar day with a short biblical quotation and then follows with inspirational, yet very practical descriptions of what it truly means to live one's life as a Christian. Oswald Chambers is a master of clarifying what it means to do the Lord's will as opposed to what many Christians or self-described religious persons believe the Lord's will to be. It takes effort to discern the difference between, "Thy will be done" versus "My will be done" when we deceive ourselves into believing we are doing the Higher will when in reality we are only serving our own little egos. "My Utmost For His Highest" is truly a beacon of inspiration for Chrisitians navigating their way into a truly honest relationship with themselves and with the Lord.
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Summary: Awesome -- a must for any serious Bible reader
Review: An excellent daily devotional. Concise. Profound. Truly gives you commentary you can use every day on your spiritual journey. A great way to start every day!
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Summary: Deep, but worthy of being mined
Review: As a Bible teacher, missionary and chaplain, Oswald Chambers' love for God is shared in this book in a way that is both inspirational and challenging. Avoiding "formula" Christianity of the "pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by" genre, Chambers calls his readers to a determined and purposeful abandonment of the things of this world, and to a habitual and concentrated identification with the suffering of Christ for the sake of the world, with a view toward the joy that is set before us. Having been originally written from about 1910 to 1917, the style of these short talks may necessitate more meditation on the part of the reader than more contemporary books would, but the gems of thought contained therein will more than reward those who will make the effort. If you want to be called to the next level of discipleship and commitment to the cause of Christ, this book of daily devotionals will certainly be a great source of motivation and encouragement.
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Summary: Maybe I should work on being a better person...
Review: Because I had a hard time keeping up my devotional every day. As an atheist humanist, I opened up to this book when I heard that George Bush read it every morning. One of my Christian friends also urged me to read it.
But I had a hard time accepting what I read. I felt that despite my views on God, which are pretty open minded, you really need to have a desire to improve your faith in God in order to get into this book. That was not my goal. Rather, I was hoping to learn how to better myself, get in touch with Jesus, and improve my character and discipline. Perhaps this book is for some but not others.
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Summary: A mixed bag, full of contradictions
Review: Chambers' devotional classic is long on practical advice for Christian living, but theologically confused. This is astonishing, considering the author sat under the preaching of the great C H Spurgeon, heir to the Reformed Puritan tradition. It is mystical, even gnostic or pelagian in many places. There is no mention of a church, of the sacraments. Instead, the Christian "worker" is portrayed as an isolated self-made spiritual giant. The influences are clearly Wesleyan with references to entire sanctification and the second blessing. Spurgeon's meticulous teaching is rejected through Chambers' confusion of the classic Protestant doctrine of justification with sanctification. The substitutionary atonement of Christ on the cross for the sins of God's people is strangely bypassed - instead the crucifixion is depicted as a mystical "higher life" example of how individual Christians are to live. There is much practical wisdom, but READ WITH DISCERNMENT!
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Summary: A spiritual classic
Review: Daily devotions culled from the work of an early twentieth century saint. Chambers blends a gift for arresting imagery and insight with a heart that is always in pursuit of God.
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Summary: Very Informative and Helpful
Review: Each day you read a page and get closer in your walk with the Lord. The book can open your eyes to see and open ears to hear. Highly recommended!
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Summary: We must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Review: Each morning I read this book, I find myself drawn to a place of accountability and yet filled with a desire to worship and commune with my Lord. Oswald Chambers has a way of opening the reader's eyes to the plan that God has for each one of us individually. Combining this book with reading the scriptures included for each day has expanded my morning devotional time to a depth and breadth I could not have imagined before.
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