My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language Mass Market Paperback (A Daily Devotional with 366 Bible-Based Readings)

by Oswald Chambers

  The Best-Selling and Most Beloved Devotional Book of All Time!
 
You’ll find 365 thought-provoking meditations in this classic-language, inexpensive paperback edition of “the golden book of Oswald Chambers.” My Utmost for His Highest will encourage and move you to think more deeply about your relationship with the Lord.

My Utmost for His Highest has sold over 13 million copies worldwide and is considered one of the most popular religious books ever written. These captivating words of wisdom from Oswald Chambers have challenged and inspired readers for more than 80 years.
 
Oswald Chambers was a teacher and preacher whose messages cut to the heart of the gospel.  His wife, Biddy, transcribed his lectures and sermons and compiled them into books, the most popular being My Utmost for His Highest . The title is taken from a thought in one of his “Shut out every consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only—My Utmost for His Highest.”
 
Chambers was a man completely devoted to Christ, and his life and writings clearly portray that. This daily devotional has inspired countless people to drink deeply from the biblical truths that Chambers so passionately championed.
 
 

368 pages, Paperback

Published February 15, 2022

About the author

Oswald Chambers was born to devout parents in Aberdeen, Scotland. At age 16, Oswald Chambers was baptized and became a member of Rye Lane Baptist Chapel. Even as a teenager, Chambers was noted for his deep spirituality, and he participated in the evangelization of poor occupants of local lodging houses. Oswald married Gertrude in May 1910, and on May 24, 1913, Gertrude gave birth to their only child, Kathleen. In 1915, a year after the outbreak of World War I, Chambers was accepted as a YMCA chaplain. He was assigned to Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt, where he ministered to Australian and New Zealand troops, who later participated in the Battle of Gallipoli. Soon his wooden-framed "hut" was packed with hundreds of soldiers listening attentively to his messages. Confronted by a soldier who said, "I can't stand religious people," Chambers replied, "Neither can I." Chambers was stricken with appendicitis on October 17, 1917 but resisted going to a hospital on the grounds that the beds would be needed by men wounded in the long-expected Third Battle of Gaza. On October 29th, a surgeon performed an emergency appendectomy, but Chambers died November 15, 1917 from a hemorrhage of the lungs. He was buried in Cairo with full military honors. Gertrude, for the remainder of her life published books and articles for him edited from the notes she had taken in shorthand from his sermons. Most successful of the thirty books was, "My Utmost for His Highest", which has never been out of print and has been translated into 39 languages.

Reviews

[M Christopher · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm pretty sure this is the second time I've tried to read this well-known book of devotion. It doesn't work for me. Chambers' sitz im leben and understanding of God are simply too different from my own.