Last night I modeled a quiet time for our Thursday night class and said that my favorite devotional book of all time is My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers. This morning when I was reading my devotional for today, it was talking about Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, the subject of day 3 in week 5 of the new FP4H Bible study, Healthy Boundaries. I have copied below so you can see why I love this devotional book more than any other and have been using it since 1984. It is always fresh and new because it has been a year since I read it last. Because it is deep spiritual truth, it takes years to fully understand the content. Also, it is deep enough that it wakes me up as I read it while drinking my morning coffee.
There is a free app or you can go to
utmost.org to read the devotional each day for free.
The reason I love the physical book
is that I write significant life events that happen on that day and put the
year beside it. I have been using the same book since 1990 and would be
distressed if something happened to it because my life is literally in it.
Praying you all have a blessed
weekend full of healthy food; physical, mental, emotional & spiritual.
Carole Lewis
From My Utmost For His Highest...
His Temptation and Ours
We do not have a High Priest who cannot
sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet
without sin. — Hebrews 4:15
Until we are born again, the only
kind of temptation we understand is the kind mentioned in James 1:14,
“Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.” But
through regeneration we are lifted into another realm where there are other
temptations to face, namely, the kind of temptations our Lord faced. The
temptations of Jesus had no appeal to us as unbelievers because they were not
at home in our human nature. Our Lord’s temptations and ours are in different
realms until we are born again and become His brothers. The temptations of
Jesus are not those of a mere man, but the temptations of God as Man. Through
regeneration, the Son of God is formed in us (see Galatians 4:19),
and in our physical life He has the same setting that He had on earth. Satan
does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things— he tempts us to make us lose
what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being
of value to God. He does not come to us on the premise of tempting us to sin,
but on the premise of shifting our point of view, and only the Spirit of God
can detect this as a temptation of the devil.
Temptation means a test of the
possessions held within the inner, spiritual part of our being by a power
outside us and foreign to us. This makes the temptation of our Lord
explainable. After Jesus’ baptism, having accepted His mission of being the One
“who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29)
He “was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness” (Matthew 4:1)
and into the testing devices of the devil. Yet He did not become weary or
exhausted. He went through the temptation “without sin,” and He retained all
the possessions of His spiritual nature completely intact.
Wisdom From Oswald Chambers
Crises reveal
character. When we are put to the test the hidden resources of our character
are revealed exactly. Disciples Indeed, 393 R
Lisa, I just found info on First Place in a Beth Moore book titled Praying God's Word. Love your post on "My Utmost For His Highest". I received a copy in 1999, from my middle son's friend. Like you, my copy has numerous notes and comments. I 've had to tape it back together a few times. It is wonderful as you have said. Yes, deep spiritual truth...something eye opening every time I read it. Thank you for the post.
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