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   June 24 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest Luke 22:53 “This is your hour, and the power of darkness.” SIN The hour was late, and the power of darkness was moving… Many people think darkness hides them, but nothing is hidden from God. Sin was in the making of that arresting party. Sin was the reason they hated Him — not His sin, but their sin. Christ was sinless. But He exposed their sin, and they hated Him for it. Sin is the reason Jesus came to earth. Sin is the reason He died. If we live our lives without being reconciled to the fact that sin destroys, and without getting right with God, we will live in sin — and it will be one disaster after another. I lived that way for 68 years. I lived through more disasters than I can count. And yet… God was still working on me. Because now, my life is good. I have surrendered my life to God, and He is the ruling f...

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections   Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page   June 23 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest Isaiah 53:3 "He is . . . a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief" The Cost of Sin The fall of Adam plunged humanity into sin.  We all face the inherited corruption of the fall.   When we are young, we do not deal with the reality of sin. We grow up thinking we will control our own lives. We get educated, we mature, and we assume we will grow out of our wicked ways.  As we grow older, we do not confront the sin in our lives. We joke about it. We condone it. We join others in it. We look at it as something to be covered up or hidden. We do not address it as sin. We make less of it and brush past it with the tendency to excuse it.  Sin can creep into every facet of our lives. Many things that do not look like sin contain sin — but we do not realize it until it has taken root.  Chambers teac...