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 15 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest 2 Peter 1:5  “Also… add to your faith…”  He Is In The Drudgery  Yesterday I realized that I had lived out today's devotional in real time... again God engineered my circumstances so that I experienced today's devotional before I knew about it or wrote about it. One day a few months ago, I realized… I am living these devotionals day by day! And then just recently, I found this passage in my January 1 devotional where I introduced this book we’re working through, My Utmost for His Highest , and quoted Charles Stanley, who said: “This volume is not a treasure to be admired but a message to be lived.” And I wrote: Let’s live it.  Well… I am. Every devotional, every day, I’m experiencing it and writing about it in real time. Even when I realized that I was living out these devotionals, I did not remem...

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page Bible Verse Isaiah 60:1 "Arise, shine..." Reflection There is a quiet honesty in the way drudgery exposes us. Not the dramatic trials, not the seasons that feel heroic or spiritually charged — but the small, repetitive, unglamorous tasks that no one applauds and no one sees. These are the places where my heart is revealed most clearly. Chambers is right: drudgery is a test of spiritual genuineness. It is the work that feels beneath us, the work that feels disconnected from calling or purpose, the work that seems too small to matter. Yet Scripture whispers a different truth: “Arise, shine…” (Isaiah 60:1). Not when the moment feels holy. Not when inspiration arrives. Not when the task looks meaningful. But now — in the middle of the ordinary. The mystery is that God does not lift me up first. He asks me to rise. He asks me to take the step that feels too small to count. And a...