Praise God for His Word

Many of us have used a famous daily devotional entitled, "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers (in fact, it is available under Daily Walk on our Calvary Chapel Space Coast web site). Few know, however, that Oswald Chambers had a relatively short life for the Lord ministry wise, and that it is his wife, Gertrude, that put together all but one of his books from notes she had taken while listening to his messages for the short time she had with him. (So while over 30 titles bear his name, it is only one book, "Baffled to Fight Better", that he actually wrote.)

His wife labored for half a century to give his words to the world. Praise God for giving us the living Word, Jesus Christ, and praise God for the many prophets, apostles, and saints through the generations that have labored and given their lives to give us God's Word.

(I've appended a brief biography of Oswald Chambers in case I piqued your curiosity.)
Yours in Him,
Pastor B.

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born July 24, 1874, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Converted in his teen years under the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, he studied art and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh before answering a call from God to the Christian ministry. He then studied theology at Dunoon College. From 1906-1910 he conducted an itinerant Bible-teaching ministry in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
In 1910, Chambers married Gertrude Hobbs. They had one daughter, Kathleen.
In 1911 he founded and became principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham, London, where he lectured until the school was closed in 1915 because of World War I. In October 1915 he sailed for Zeitoun, Egypt (near Cairo), where he ministered to troops from Australia and New Zealand as a YMCA chaplain. He died there November 15, 1917, following surgery for a ruptured appendix.
Although Oswald Chambers wrote only one book, Baffled to Fight Better, more than thirty titles bear his name. With this one exception, published works were compiled by Mrs. Chambers, a court stenographer, from her verbatim shorthand notes of his messages taken during their seven years of marriage. For half a century following her husband's death she labored to give his words to the world.