What are we to do about the common and very human experience of despair? Often, despair befalls us when we have made a serious mistake. Despair also assails us through circumstances over which we have no control. Being, so many of us, perfectionists and control-freaks, we become paralyzed.
For 25 years I read Oswald Chambers devotional insights and wrote hundreds of notes in the margins. This week I was surprised to find two pages with no markings whatsoever; even though Chambers focuses for two days in a row on one of spirituality’s most important themes and one of humanity’s greatest needs. What is that need?
I am quite certain that the primary cause of discouragement in my life is wanting God to act on my behalf, NOW. I want the answer now. I want the inspiration now …
Chambers uses the word “Reality” in the same sense as theologian Paul Tillich uses the phrase, “Ultimate Reality.” God is Reality itself. God is what is most real. God’s primary concern is “Reality,” meaning everything. “For God so loved the world…”
For Chambers, born-again was not at all about a born-again moment or event that distinguished a superior brand of Christians.
As I have said before, Oswald Chambers was my devotional mentor every day for 25 years. I have returned to …
On January 11, for 25 years, 1982-2007, I read the same devotional reading from Oswald Chambers. I don’t think I ever applied it to myself. This reading, I clearly understood, was written for missionaries who …
For the first 25 years, after I began seeking God with all body, mind and spirit in 1981, Oswald Chambers was my daily devotional mentor. As I begin my devotional times in 2021, I am returning to his wisdom and once a week I will share a brief passage from that wisdom and a few comments.
