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 May 10 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest 2 Peter 1:5  "Add to your faith virtue…" The Will God Renews Faith is God’s gift to you — but virtue, character, and daily obedience are things you are invited to add. God has done what only He can do: He has saved you, claimed you, and filled you with His Spirit. Now He invites you to participate in your own growth — not by striving or forcing, but by taking the next step with Him. Virtue is the Spirit‑given courage to act on what God has already shown you. Many believers assume that surrendering their will means God will now make every decision for them. Especially after a lifetime of wrong choices, it can feel safer to want Him to “take over completely.” But surrender does not erase your will — it renews it. Your will is still active, but now it can be strengthened and aligned by His Spirit. God renews and streng...

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections   Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page   Apr 17 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest John 21:7 "When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment ... and plunged into the sea"  The Will Peter didn’t hesitate. The moment he recognized Jesus, he moved. Chambers uses that moment to expose something deeper in us: the crisis of the will — the internal point where surrender is chosen from within, independent of emotion or circumstances. Peter didn't think about it — he acted. He chose. He moved. He committed his will in one direction. That is the crisis of the will: a decisive moment where you yield yourself fully, without hesitation. His action wasn't emotional, it was decisive. Chambers is pointing to Peter's immediate surrender of self-preservation. The crisis of the will is internal, not external. True surrender happens inside, long before any outward action. But when...

Bible Verse 2 Timothy 4:6 "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand." ("As for me, my life has already been poured out as an offering to God. The time of my death is near.") NLT Reflection There is a moment in every believer’s life when obedience moves from emotion to will. Not the warm feeling of surrender, not the inspiration of a spiritual high — but the quiet, steady choice to say yes to God before we know what that yes will cost. Chambers reminds us that this offering begins in private. No one sees the crisis of the will. No one notices the inward altar where we lay down our preferences, our timing, our comfort, our imagined futures. From the outside, nothing looks different. But inside, everything has shifted. Once the will has bowed, the external cost no longer frightens us. We stop calculating. We stop protecting ourselves. We stop rehearsing what we might lose. We simply walk forward, trusting that God will meet us in the fi...