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   —Living-Out My Sanctification— Aug 27 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest John 12:35 "Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you . . ." I have been living surrendered since April 8th of 2026, but I am having a hard time living it out in my everyday life. I lived by my own standards for 68 years and now find it hard to adjust to this new life. I love my new life, but I have not lived a disciplined life for 68 years. I have not lived loving Jesus for 68 years—devoted to Him and placing Him as my #1 priority. I am still working on that. He is still working on me. I am stubborn and willful and like to have my own way too much. Lord, I need your help.  It is August. I have had some wonderful experiences these last few months, but they will not carry me into tomorrow. I want to continue my humble and surrendered attitude. I have dealt with burdens a...

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections   Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page    Open thou mine eyes  Psalm 119:18 The prayer that breaks spiritual blindness July 26 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest Matthew 15:18-20 "Those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart . . . . For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man . . ." Open My Eyes, Lord Chambers continues his theme on purity . . . Purity. A newborn baby is pure innocence. A tiny baby animal is pure innocence. Even a grown animal is innocence to me because they live from instinct—God given instinct. I love animals and consider them innocent. God gave Adam reign over this world, animals are under our jurisdiction. They are at our mercy. But a human being is no longer innocent once childhood has evaporated from their life. I relate innocence with purity...

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections  Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page   Abide in Me, and I in you John 15:4 July 23 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest 1 Corinthians 1:30 "But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us . . . sanctification . . ." The Moment After You Let Go The Life Side of Sanctification The truth of sanctification is... at the very moment you loosen the grip of control you have over your life is the very moment Jesus speaks of in Matthew 16: 25-26... we lose our life for Jesus' sake and find it. The sanctification of your soul has begun. You have the Holy Spirit already in you. Now He will work the very life of our perfect and holy Saviour, Jesus Christ, into your life.  Sanctification is Christ in you. The qualities of our Lord, Jesus Christ, are instantly ours. He will live His life through us. It is a gift of God's grace. Sanctification means nothing less than Jesus living through us. His qua...

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections  Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.  For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,  and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16: 25-26 July 22 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest 1 Thessalonians 4:3 "This is the will of God, your sanctification . . ." The Moment You Let Go The Death Side of Sanctification ...  There is a season in life where we have to make a decision to choose Christ or... not. Death to self is a term used to describe the stripping down of the person you think you are to the person Christ wants to sanctify. Sanctification cannot come until you are stripped of all identities except the only one that matters.  This is a time of inner struggle. A time of coming to Jesus just as we are and letting Him work a miracl...

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections  Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page Mar 23 Today's Reflection from My Utmost For His Highest 1 Corinthians 3:3 "Where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal ...?" Being Transformed From Within By God Carnality isn’t something the unbeliever ever wrestles with — it awakens only after new birth, when the Spirit begins His quiet war against the old self. The moment we were reborn, two desires began to pull in opposite directions: the flesh resisting the Spirit, and the Spirit gently but firmly resisting the flesh. This tension is not failure; it is evidence of life. Paul’s words are startlingly practical. He doesn’t point to dramatic sins but to the small, everyday reactions that reveal what still lives in us: irritation over little things, defensiveness when corrected, resentment when Scripture presses too close. These are not signs that we are lost — they are signs that the Sp...

Bible Verse 1 Thessalonians 5:23 KJV "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." Reflection Sanctification is not a light word. It is God’s deep work within us — the shaping, the refining, the quiet separating of our hearts for His purposes alone. Chambers reminds us that when we ask God to sanctify us, we are asking Him to do whatever is necessary to make us completely His. That is not a small prayer. It touches every part of a life. To be sanctified is to let God narrow our earthly concerns and widen our heavenly ones. It is to allow Him to redirect our strength, our desires, our habits, and our inner life toward what matters to Him . It is the slow, steady work of becoming aligned with Jesus — not just in belief, but in nature. Chambers asks us gently but honestly: Are we willing for God to do this work in us? Are we willing to release what is not of Him...