The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections  Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page Jun 7 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest  John 14:13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do.”  The Center of the Christian Life There is a quiet place in the Christian life where everything becomes simple again. Not necessarily easy — but simple. It is the place where a believer stops striving in personal strength and returns to the only source of true spiritual power: the Cross of Jesus Christ. Chambers calls this the atonement — the finished work of Christ that opened the way for every believer to belong to God, to be forgiven, to be made clean, and to live in His presence without fear. The more this truth is embraced, the clearer it becomes that the Cross is not only the beginning of salvation… it is the center of the entire life of faith. Whenever a believer drifts, it is because the heart has moved away from that center. Whenever weariness sets in,...