Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His
Highest – Friday, 29 November 2013 “The Absoluteness Of Jesus Christ”
He shall glorify Me.(John 16:14)
The pietistic movements of to-day have
none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them; there is nothing
about them that needs the Death of Jesus Christ; all that is required is a
pious atmosphere, and prayer and devotion. This type of experience is not
supernatural nor miraculous, it did not cost the passion of God, it is not dyed
in the blood of the Lamb, not stamped with the hall-mark of the Holy Ghost; it
has not that mark on it which makes men say, as they look with awe and wonder –
"That is the work of God Almighty." That and nothing else is what the
New Testament talks about.
The type of Christian experience in the
New Testament is that of personal passionate devotion to the Person of Jesus
Christ. Every other type of Christian experience, so called, is detached from
the Person of Jesus. There is no regeneration, no being born again into the
Kingdom in which Christ lives, but only the idea that He is our Pattern. In the
New Testament Jesus Christ is Saviour long before He is Pattern. To-day He is
being despatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere Example. He is that,
but He is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.
Jesus said, "When He the Spirit of
truth is come . . . He shall glorify Me." When I commit myself to the
revelation made in the New Testament, I receive from God the gift of the Holy
Spirit Who begins to interpret to me what Jesus did and does in me subjectively
all that Jesus Christ did for me objectively.
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