After studying and later teaching in a small theological college in Dunoon, he moved into a preaching ministry that spanned Britain, America, Japan and Egypt. Although gifted in the arts, he felt at the age of 22, that God was calling him to become a minister. In fact,an interesting note is my publication ' Disillusionment of Discipleship' was birthed by the impact of Chambers' writings.Ĭhambers was born in Scotland in 1874 and was educated at London's Royal College of Art and the University of Edinburgh. After being blessed with the privilege to read at the ripe age of 21, this was one of the first publications to which I became attached. I was gifted a little book entitled 'My Utmost For His Highest.' This book was a copy of the early Welsh/English version - needless to say, quite difficult to read. Faith is the entire person in the right relationship with God through the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.I was introduced to Oswald Chambers' work shortly after I accepted Jesus Christ into my life at the age of 16.

But once we hear Jesus say, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” ( John 14:9) we immediately have something that is real, and our faith is limitless. Until we know Jesus, God is merely a concept, and we can’t have faith in Him. God brings us into particular circumstances to educate our faith, because the nature of faith is to make the object of our faith very real to us. Turning intellectual faith into our personal possession is always a fight, not just sometimes. The life of faith says, “Lord, You have said it, it appears to be irrational, but I’m going to step out boldly, trusting in Your Word” (for example, see Matthew 6:33). Faith is a tremendously active principle that always puts Jesus Christ first. Faith always works in a personal way, because the purpose of God is to see that perfect faith is made real in His children.įor every detail of common sense in life, there is a truth God has revealed by which we can prove in our practical experience what we believe God to be. “We know that all things work together for good…” ( Romans 8:28) so that no matter what happens, the transforming power of God’s providence transforms perfect faith into reality. Yet faith must be tested and tried before it becomes real in your life. Nothing that Jesus Christ ever said is common sense, but is revelation sense, and is complete, whereas common sense falls short. Common sense and faith are as different from each other as the natural life is from the spiritual, and as impulsiveness is from inspiration. The life of faith brings the two of these into the proper relationship. Faith in active opposition to common sense is mistaken enthusiasm and narrow-mindedness, and common sense in opposition to faith demonstrates a mistaken reliance on reason as the basis for truth.

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