Welcome back to Literacy Musing Mondays! Take a look and add your family friendly blog posts to our linkup. Our
guest poster today is Susan Chamberlain Shipe. She writes about the
influence of one of her favorite books, the classic: My
Utmost for His Highest by Oswald
Chambers and shares her favorite quotes from this life changing book.
I hope you enjoy.
A
Look at a Life Changing Book: My Utmost for His Highest
by
Oswald Chambers
By
Susan Chamberlain Shipe
In
1937, Chaplain to
the United States Senate, Richard C. Halverson, was given a copy
of My
Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers;
a new believer, Mr. Halverson began reading MUFHH every single day.
"No book except the Bible has influenced my walk with Christ at
such deep and maturing levels. Nor has any influenced my preaching
and teaching so much. "The book's strength lies in its stubborn
insistence on the objective reality of redemption as the only secure
foundation. Today, subjective experience is often accepted as the
criterion for authentic faith. In Chambers, I am constantly being
reminded that the ground of faith and experience is the person of
Jesus Christ. "Chambers makes the point that Christian faith is
rooted in events. The historicity of the gospel is its validation.
Propositional truth is important, but the basis of faith is always
Jesus Christ Himself. "Through the years Chambers has kept me on
course by bringing me back to Jesus. Believing Jesus, not just
believing my beliefs about Jesus, is basic." Richard C.
Halverson, Chaplain U.S. Senate
In
1992, wife of one,
Mother of three, Susan Chamberlain Shipe rededicated her life to her
Lord and Savior, and was given a copy of My
Utmost for His Highest. Every
day for more than 20 years, I read this devotional, and I am here to
say - there
is not another devotional available that will take a disciple of
Jesus Christ deeper into the truths of God's Word. Today,
I want to share some of my favorite Oswald Chambers' quotes.
"When
God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but
wait."
"Whenever
there is doubt -- don't."
"We
receive His blessings and know His Word, but do we know HIM?"
"God
never gives us anything accidental. There is nothing easier than
getting in a right relationship with God except when it is not God
Whom you want but only what He gives."
So
many good things to read are available to us, but I encourage you to
give Oswald Chambers classic book a chance! I truly believe you won't
ever be the same! xo
Susan
Chamberlain Shipe, a writer since the age of eight when she and her
neighborhood friend wrote, edited, published, and distributed The
Manor News.
Things have changed since publishing with the five and dime stamp
lettering set! Today, Susan enjoys blogging, writing short devotions,
and short stories from her empty-nest home in the Appalachian
Mountain Range of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwestern North
Carolina, which she shares with her husband of thirty years, Lowell,
and their beloved dog, Sam. Susan can be found musing several times a
week on her blog: hopehearthome.com.
You can also follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
Now
on to our weekly Literacy Musing Monday's linkup. First let's
Leslie@Forever
Joyful
Gayl@Thoughts
and Art from my Heart
Mary
@Maryandering Creatively
Tami
@ThisMomsDelight
Now
let's celebrate reading and learning by reviewing:
Last
Week’s Top Clicked Post!
Easy
Christianity is
buying a Christian coffee mug. But it’s not true
Christianity.
With this quote, my spirit was checked. Lydia delivers a must read
post that will make you pray and check your heart. I hope you will
stop by and read it. :)
My
Favorite Post of the Week:
In
this review Tami shares with us the importance of having friends and
being a friend specifically for moms but it can apply to all of our
relationships in life. We need others for mutual encouragement along
the way. She also shares a giveaway for this book which will be open
for a few more days. Check it out!
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