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 Aug 14 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest Hebrews 12:5 "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him" The Gentle Discipline of God Sanctification is God’s loving work of making us holy,  shaping us to reflect Christ, one surrender at a time. Rebuked by Him... Rebuked by the Lord Almighty. How do we feel when the Lord rebukes us?  We should feel valued that He loves us enough to care. Valued enough to save us. Loved enough to give us His time and favor. Rebuked because He wants to make us holy and sanctified. We should be so grateful that we are here in this moment. So, whatever the costs, we must allow Him to shape us. We must accept His chastisements. We must let the Lord get us to that place where we can be fully sanctified by Him. It is not our idea of what we want but His idea of what He wants to do for...

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page May 20 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest Luke 21:19  "By your patience possess your souls." Possessing My Soul  When Everything Feels Out of Control Some devotionals are written from study, but others are born in the middle of a storm. Before I ever wrote a word of this one, I lived it. I walked through days of restlessness, confusion, and heaviness I could not explain — and God used every moment of it to teach me how to steady my soul under His hand. What follows is not theory, but the truth He revealed to me as I endured it. Oswald Chambers writes that when Christ gives us new life, our spirit is reborn instantly — but our soul (our thoughts, emotions, reactions, habits) must be patiently brought under the rule of that new life. He says many of us stay at the doorway of the Christian life because we never learn to "possess" our soul — to take hold ...